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by markatkinson 3652 days ago
You could start a whole separate website of just "Best HN comments".
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cloakandswagger 3652 days ago
There's no need for a separate website, HN already provides a collection of best comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cloakandswagger

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planteen 3652 days ago
I see what you did there
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ojbyrne 3652 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
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tehwalrus 3652 days ago
That's awesome. Are these just comments with a high karma, or is there some other magic going on?
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exolymph 3652 days ago
Seems like a combination of length and karma — or maybe length and karma just happen to correlate? There are short ones in there too. Hmm.
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bkanber 3652 days ago
My guess is it's a simple time-decay-weighted karma-based formula. That is, karma * e ^ -age. "Best" vs "top" may be the difference in net karma vs gross positive karma.
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