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		jgrahamc on Dec 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma I do not see any use of the user's karma in the sorting algorithm for comments in the published HN code.

rpm4321 on Dec 3, 2012 [–]

As I mentioned above: PG has made so many unpublished modifications - for obvious reasons - to karma, spam filters, voter-ring detection, I wouldn't put too much stock into sussing out the inner-workings of HN through the original Arc download.

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