You, wait. You lived in a bunker on the planet Mercury, but you didn't have the internet? What kind of logic is that?
[Please take a seat Ms. Muir Shen Yuan just has a few questions to ask you.]
Quantity was part of it, but the site also measured traffic generated by your commentary, and people could cast votes indicating whether they approved or disapproved of your expressed opinions. Top-rankers usually generated a lot of traffic with their posts and had a high approval rating. [And SY had a high approval rating because, much like some reddit boards, people would upvote him to make his posts more visible and easier to share around, but shhhhh, he doesn't need to know that.]
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[Please take a seat Ms. Muir Shen Yuan just has a few questions to ask you.]
Quantity was part of it, but the site also measured traffic generated by your commentary, and people could cast votes indicating whether they approved or disapproved of your expressed opinions. Top-rankers usually generated a lot of traffic with their posts and had a high approval rating. [And SY had a high approval rating because, much like some reddit boards, people would upvote him to make his posts more visible and easier to share around, but shhhhh, he doesn't need to know that.]