If you didn’t know yet, now you do: SUP (the company that owned LiveJournal in Russia) has changed the ranking system for top posts on the LJ homepage. today in LiveJournal v.84 we have completely changed the algorithm used to calculate post rankings. It is now based not only on linear quantitative indicators—in plain language, hits—but first and foremost on a set of qualitative indicators with logarithmic and exponential relationships to one another. To put it even more simply, bots used to manipulate the rankings can now safely be thrown out—they are useless from this point on. Everything else about how posts are displayed remains the same: 15 posts by unique authors will appear on the main pages of LiveJournal.ru and LiveJournal.com. That is, if two or more posts by the same author make the top 15, only one of them—the most popular one—will be shown on the homepage, while on the full rankings page they will all appear according to their positions. http://igrick.livejournal.com/513304.html We’ll see how this works in practice, but for now it looks like good news. You want to find genuinely high-impact posts in the “top,” not yet another piece of garbage from the Nashi movement (a pro-Kremlin youth group), for whose promotion they were given 3,000 rubles (about $100 at the time)—or maybe $3,000, of which they stole 2,700. Yesterday Zhenya roizman called me and said I shouldn’t be spreading jokes like "the Navalny project will be sold," because lots of people believe it, worry about it, and get upset. I don’t know—it seems to me that anyone who reads "Navalny sold his blog and used the proceeds to buy two stamp albums" should understand that the entire smixer.ru site is parody news. Especially given that right next to it are sensational headlines like: Monkeys from the Moscow Zoo have joined the Popular Front and Boris Gryzlov intends to spend the next two months wandering through the Russian provinces Work on your sense of humor, citizens.