On: Deriving the Reddit Formula

[raldi]

Note: The author of this piece wrote the original analysis (http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....) that directly led to my advocating for reddit's "best" comment sort, including to xkcd's Randall Munroe, who managed to finally convince the rest of Team Reddit to make the change (http://www.redditblog.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sortin...).

So when the author says, "I realize that proposing any change to how Reddit works is one of the Internet's most dangerous games," he should be informed that it's actually a game he's won before.

[Fando → raldi]

Wow, I didn't know that. I was going to say that a long time ago I randomly read Evan's article about 'how not to sort by average rating'. Good work.