The year&#x27;s coefficient is misleading. When an old article gets to the front page, the title is usually changed from &quot;The Title&quot; to &quot;The Title (year)&quot; by the mods. So the submissions of old articles that are successful get the year number but the unsuccessful ones don&#x27;t get it. (It would be interesting to repeat this with the original title.)<p>(There are some exceptions, sometimes the submitter adds the year to the title.)