The solutions presented were better and more mathematically sound. This might work, but that algorithm maximizes the exposure of deserving posts and optimizes the tradeoff between testing new posts and sticking with proven ones. This is just arbitrarily throwing new links to a top box that everyone ignores.
And reddit's solution doesn't seem to be working much better IMO, tons of posts get buried with little exposure. The rising section seems to be usually empty or just 2 or 3 totally random posts.
Reddit's algorithm is often criticized for heavily favoring quickly consumed content like images because they get vote quicker. Also easily manipulated by bots/sock-puppets.
And reddit's solution doesn't seem to be working much better IMO, tons of posts get buried with little exposure. The rising section seems to be usually empty or just 2 or 3 totally random posts.
Reddit's algorithm is often criticized for heavily favoring quickly consumed content like images because they get vote quicker. Also easily manipulated by bots/sock-puppets.