As long as we're having a meta-thread, is there any way to incorporate the site traffic into the decay function. The problem currently is that if you post something off-peak, a lot of time elapses with no one around to vote. It sucks to finish writing a blog post at 7pm and have to wait until 11am the next day to post it.
It'll be interesting to see if this change would affect the content on Reddit at all. Normally if you want to ride the aggregation train the ideal strategy is to wait until you hit the top of news.yc before submitting to Reddit, and then wait until you make the front page of Reddit before submitting to Digg. If good stories start hitting the #1 spot on this site during nights or on the weekends, it could potentially have some interesting ripple effects further up the chain.
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As long as we're having a meta-thread, is there any way to incorporate the site traffic into the decay function. The problem currently is that if you post something off-peak, a lot of time elapses with no one around to vote. It sucks to finish writing a blog post at 7pm and have to wait until 11am the next day to post it.
That's the main way the current plan isn't optimal. Paul Buchheit suggested I scale votes by recent activity, and I probably will do that.
It'll be interesting to see if this change would affect the content on Reddit at all. Normally if you want to ride the aggregation train the ideal strategy is to wait until you hit the top of news.yc before submitting to Reddit, and then wait until you make the front page of Reddit before submitting to Digg. If good stories start hitting the #1 spot on this site during nights or on the weekends, it could potentially have some interesting ripple effects further up the chain.
floating point karma.
I totally agree. This also effects people who are in different timezones.