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Siecje on Nov 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy

On HN how is it that posts with 7 points make it the front page but others do not?

minimaxir on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

Posts with 7 points that get those points quickly (within a half hour of being posted) will hit the front page due to the time portion of the algorithm.

Whether it stays there is another story.

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