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sp332 on May 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tarsnap – Online backups for the truly paranoid

Comment placement is by both new-ness and upvotes. So a post that is downvoted immediately sinks faster, but doesn't immediately go to the bottom.

DanBC on May 25, 2013 [–]

Also average comment score of poster.

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