Without diving into the code, can you tell us the algorithm? Does it scale based...

trickjarrett on July 3, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed

Without diving into the code, can you tell us the algorithm? Does it scale based on upvotes? Such that a 200 vote story is harder to kill than 70? Or is it just that once a story passes 50 upvotes it can't be programmatically killed?

pg on July 3, 2009 [–]

At the moment it just has a threshold of 10 points.