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The gag tag doesn't mean "gagged." It means the post is a gag, in the sense of a joke.

Sorry I can't be more transparent about how contro-factor is calculated, incidentally. Its purpose is to recognize flamewars.

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I'm curious about how you evaluate prospective algorithm changes. Do you roll out a change you think should work and then monitor, or do you have a corpus of e.g. flame wars you test against?

There's a repl on the server, and I test tweaks on the live site.

Do you have a dashboard of some kind to visualize your tests effects? I am curious about the broad kind of insight one could have with such a programmatic access to this community. Perhaps I missed an essay about HN/REPL?

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