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0 pointsmarkatkinson9y ago0 comments

You could start a whole separate website of just "Best HN comments".

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cloakandswagger9y ago

There's no need for a separate website, HN already provides a collection of best comments:

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

planteen9y ago

I see what you did there

ojbyrne9y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

tehwalrus9y ago

That's awesome. Are these just comments with a high karma, or is there some other magic going on?

exolymph9y 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.

bkanber9y 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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