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Alvaro Montoro • Edited

I think the top 5 comments is by amount of likes (don't know if the likes of the responses count or not). The top 7 posts is probably a combination of both votes and a human picking, because they often are not the ones with the most votes.

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Maybe it is just something I should be asking with the #meta tag - it would be interesting to know. See if I can game that system too once I know the rules! 😋

But number of likes has very little to do with it from what I can tell...in fact I got "sniped" twice on the a11y tag where I had top post and some random post got promoted...once when I had positions 1, 2 and 3 all at the same time!

Didn't think too much of it until just now, now I am really intrigued at how this actually works? Now I am actually a little annoyed by it now that I am thinking about it...lol!

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Alvaro Montoro

Maybe part of the algorithm is "do not select any person that was promoted in the past x days/weeks"?

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GrahamTheDev

You don't think I get promoted often enough for that to be the case do you? 🤣

I am in the middle of writing a post to ask the question so it will be intriguing to see the answer!

Could do with your opinion actually - is it balanced? I am aware at the moment I am a little annoyed that my crap post got the promotion and I don't want it to look like a "boo hoo" post!

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Alvaro Montoro

It looks fine. I kind of hope they reply with something like "we vote for them during our weekly demo/retrospective."