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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.


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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