3. Upvotes are weighted. If you're a
relatively new user, your upvote
has little impact on someones post.
Do you have a reference or some evidence for that? I'm not disputing it, but I have no evidence either way and I'm interested to know how you can be so sure.
Purely anecdotal I'm afraid but considering how pg likes to keep the algorithms relatively secret, it's probably as good as you'll get.
Anyway, a good friend (and a relatively new member of HN) upvoted a post (not my post) and after refreshing the page we noticed nothing had changed. I upvoted the same post and my upvote was instantly registered. Seen that happen a few times now with different users.
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Purely anecdotal I'm afraid but considering how pg likes to keep the algorithms relatively secret, it's probably as good as you'll get.
Anyway, a good friend (and a relatively new member of HN) upvoted a post (not my post) and after refreshing the page we noticed nothing had changed. I upvoted the same post and my upvote was instantly registered. Seen that happen a few times now with different users.
Yes. It happened with a friend of mine few weeks back and that's what made me ask this here.