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by blocks110 2412 days ago
Agree. Low quality stories won't make the front page, but as someone else commented, there are many competing high quality stories. And what I find really fascinating is the extent to which randomness impacts the success of a particular story. I may get to posting this at one point, but I have simulated and fitted that first distribution of scores in the article with only 3 parameters: rate of story posting, likelihood of upvote and number of readers.