From: Scarlett <63085504+Whayme@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:53:08 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Replaced table
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Replaced table
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diff --git a/docs/src/about_ranking.md b/docs/src/about_ranking.md
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@@ -7,11 +7,19 @@ An expected feature in link aggregators is a kind of "Trending" sort which shows
 - After a day or so, the time factor should go away.
 - Use a log scale, since votes tend to snowball, and so the first 10 votes are just as important as the next hundred.
 
-| Reddit | Hacker News | Lemmy |
-|-|-|-|
-| Does not take the lifetime of the thread into account, [giving early comments an overwhelming advantage over later ones,](https://minimaxir.com/2016/11/first-comment/) with the effect being even worse in small communities. New comments pool at the bottom of the thread, effectively killing off discussion and making each thread a race to comment early.  This lowers the quality of conversation and rewards comments that are repetitive and spammy. | While far superior to Reddit's implementation for its decay of scores over time, [Hacker News' ranking algorithm](https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm-works-1d9b0cf2c08d) does not use a logarithmic scale for scores. | Counterbalances the snowballing effect of votes over time with a logarithmic scale.  Negates the inherent advantage of early comments while still ensuring that votes still matter in the long-term, not nuking older popular comments. |
+## Implementations
+
+### Reddit
+Does not take the lifetime of the thread into account, [giving early comments an overwhelming advantage over later ones,](https://minimaxir.com/2016/11/first-comment/) with the effect being even worse in small communities. New comments pool at the bottom of the thread, effectively killing off discussion and making each thread a race to comment early.  This lowers the quality of conversation and rewards comments that are repetitive and spammy.
+
+### Hacker News
+
+While far superior to Reddit's implementation for its decay of scores over time, [Hacker News' ranking algorithm](https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking-algorithm-works-1d9b0cf2c08d) does not use a logarithmic scale for scores.
+
+### Lemmy
+
+Counterbalances the snowballing effect of votes over time with a logarithmic scale.  Negates the inherent advantage of early comments while still ensuring that votes still matter in the long-term, not nuking older popular comments.
 
-## Additional Details
 ```
 Rank = ScaleFactor * log(Max(1, 3 + Score)) / (Time + 2)^Gravity