[Jonathan5]

This is a nice analysis, although the causes of a high points per minute score could presumably be related to whether it gained an early vote / comment from a user with high karma (who is effectively giving it a stamp of approval).

This only had two points on 20 minutes when I voted for it though, so by their own logic is unlikely to make it to the FP!

[jonathonmorgan]

Hah, good point! Much to my chagrin, the theory I proposed is challenged by my own post. It looks like someone with a lot of karma can boost a post to the front page (there are some outliers in the analysis). Maybe we can get individual votes exposed via the API to know for sure.

[Jonathan5]

Now up to 7 points in the time it took me to write the comment! :)