kpreid comments on 2012: Year in Review - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 03 January 2013 11:56AM

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Comment author: kpreid 04 January 2013 03:07:43AM 8 points [-]

"Posts most popular in 2012 and written in 2012" gives an advantage to posts written earlier in the year. Solutions to this could include:

rank posts by (2012 views / age), though that is noisy at the recent end
rank posts by the number of views they had when one year old
rank posts by the "Best" comment sorting algorithm; wait, that doesn't work, there is no analogue of a downvote, so make this "use a more refined estimation algorithm"