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theandrewbailey on Nov 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenAI's chaos does not add up

Stories with lots of comments get a ranking penalty. It's done with intentions of stopping flame wars. (I don't know if it's effective.) It happens around 40 comments or so.

pton_xd on Nov 20, 2023 [–]

That makes sense, thanks for the explanation!

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