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I believe reddit's gives newer posts more points, rather than taking away points from older posts. I might be wrong, though. It's been a while since I've looke

by jkap 14y ago

I believe reddit's gives newer posts more points, rather than taking away points from older posts. I might be wrong, though. It's been a while since I've looked at that part of the code.

ecesena 14y ago
Mmm... not so sure. One of the nice features of reddit's algo is that it doesn't require to evaluate the score based on the current time, as this one. http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588 There are also a few similarities like max(abs(points+1),1), log base 10...
dmragone 14y ago
That's pretty much how it works (as explained by reddit co-founder Steve Huffman in Udacity 253 course - sorry I forget exactly which video he says it).