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		Anon84 on July 29, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask PG: Activity in comments adds to gravity Can you give more details on this? Does the score/number of comments just add to the total thread karma? Or is the formula a bit more complex?

pg on July 30, 2008 [–]

Here's the source:

  (= active-threshold* 1500)
  
  (def active-rank (s)
    (apply + (map [max 0 (- active-threshold* (item-age _))]
                  (cdr (family s)))))

A story's score is the sum of the difference between the age of each comment and 25 hours.

Anon84 on July 31, 2008 | [–]

Great. Thanks!

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