Recently, we published a problem analsysis and our approach to improve the HN ranking algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35183317<p>As a follow-up, we'd like to ask if the community is interested in official experiments with approaches like this. We'd suggest having a second, experimental front-page on HN, which applies the upoteRate metric to the HN formula, as described here: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#a-proposed-new-formula<p>To get a feeling how stories with a high upvoteRate look like, we prepared a page, where all frontpage stories are sorted by upvoteRate: https://news.social-protocols.org/best-upvoterate.<p>What do you think?