>This resolves one of the original mysteries — why the current time doesn't appear in Reddit's formula.
The current time did appear in the very early Reddit's formula but they figured it was computationally much faster to inflate the scores for new stories than to have to go through the database reducing the scores for loads of old stories.
The current time did appear in the very early Reddit's formula but they figured it was computationally much faster to inflate the scores for new stories than to have to go through the database reducing the scores for loads of old stories.