I was experimenting with collecting some stats on posts and accidentally published that version of the page.<p>Normally I'd say sorry, but this turned out to be so amusing that I guess I'm not sorry. Carry on!<p>Edit: you guys blow my mind. One of these years we should do this on purpose.
The numbers of this post were 106/70% , then I upvoted it, refreshed, it became 107/69%.<p>So maybe percentage is how many people viewed the front page but didn't upvote it (since you can't downvote it)...<p>... A-a-and it's gone now...
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/nlwvHJK.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/nlwvHJK.png</a> an example for those that did not see it
Was it an indicator of the quality of the comments section?<p>Looks like the percentages appeared, then HN went down briefly (server restart, sorry @dang), and now the percentages are gone.
This is a chance for moderators to conduct a social experiment: let people speculate in this thread for two days before revealing what it is. Just to see what crazy theories people come up with! :)
The colors are strange too. Some percents in red, some in gray, but it doesn't seem to be directly correlated with the quantity displayed or the post age.