komponisto comments on But Somebody Would Have Noticed - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Alicorn 04 May 2010 06:56PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 07 May 2010 05:05:13PM 0 points [-]

The algorithm is more complicated than that. I don't recall the exact details, but I'm pretty sure it includes the rate of upvotes, not just the number of them. And while it can be overriden by moderators, I doubt that they're doing that very often.

Comment author: komponisto 07 May 2010 05:26:55PM *  0 points [-]

I didn't realize promotion was automated; I thought editors (meaning basically EY) did it manually.