The time decay on new submissions is aggressive. Good stories that don't get upvoted quickly tend to fall through the cracks. We want to make that less likely.
Your post got picked up by one of our experiments. Since dozens of people upvoted it almost immediately, and not for any obviously broken reason, I think we can call this data point favorable.
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The time decay on new submissions is aggressive. Good stories that don't get upvoted quickly tend to fall through the cracks. We want to make that less likely.
Your post got picked up by one of our experiments. Since dozens of people upvoted it almost immediately, and not for any obviously broken reason, I think we can call this data point favorable.
(I'm marking this subthread off-topic now so it stays at the bottom of the page and doesn't interfere with comments on the article itself.)