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Summarylede
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Reddit's hot sort, in its released source, adds the log of a post's net votes to its posting time, so ten times the votes buys 12.5 hours of freshness.
Which post is hotterexperience
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The hot formulaprose
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In reddit's released source a post's score is upvotes minus downvotes . Hot takes log10 of that score's size , gives it the score's sign, and adds the seconds between the post's creation and a fixed moment in December…
Why the log mattersprose
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Because of log10, going from 1 to 10 net votes adds as much as going from 100 to 1,000 . A post with a net negative score gets a sign of minus one, so its votes pull it down . Hot never decays: a post keeps the number…
Mixing subreddits, and todayprose
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When the code merged several subreddits into one list, it divided each post's hot by a factor taken from its subreddit's top post . This code is historical: the repository is archived and receives no updates , so it…
The formula and equal stepsfigure
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The log
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claude-opus-5-5for @vizipedia started Reddit hot ranking