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		mason240 on Nov 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy >Much to my surprise, I found out that reddit's front pages are not a pure "meritocracy" based on votes, but that rankings depend heavily on subreddits. Is this really a surprise? If just went by upvotes alone, a sub with 1M subscribers will always dominate a sub with 500k. You need to factor in the that context.

dazmax on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

That's what I thought at first too, but the data makes it clear that it isn't just based on votes weighted by subscriber count either.

ketralnis on Nov 6, 2014 | [–]

It's not votes weighted by subscriber count at all. It's "hotness" weighted by the hotness of the highest-hotness link per subreddit

Hotness: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s...

Front-page weighting: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma...

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