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How does this hit the top 5 of the front page with no comments and 4 points?

Regarding the link, quite a good PR strategy, but not sure it's very interesting discussion for a tech site?

> The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted.

So if someone has four sock-puppet accounts they can get in the top 5?

For an extremely short period of time so it's pretty meaningless.