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		sadeshmukh 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the Lobsters front page works Dumb question. Why the negative modifier on hotness, when higher hotness could correspond to higher rank?

gerikson 44 days ago [–]

Apparently, to simplify sorting.

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