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I assume the front page gets assembled from vote rings, favours from friends, and people stumbling onto the same stuff and submitting it.
by J_Darnley 11y ago
I assume the front page gets assembled from vote rings, favours from friends, and people stumbling onto the same stuff and submitting it.
- x0054 11y agoI had one article up on the front page for a while, and I am pretty sure no one else cared to submitted because it's on a really obscure subject, and I didn't bother getting my "vote ring" involved in it :) Though I am pretty sure that having lot's of friends in SF with HN accounts would help get up on the first page. I wonder if HN monitors for this and ignores up votes if they notice a distinct pattern.
- dang 11y agoIf that were true, we'd never get the best stories, which are the out-of-the-way but fascinating things that most of us haven't heard of before.
- teh_klev 11y agoWhen I switched from lurker to a registered user and submitted my first link it hit the front page. Took me by surprise. The same happened again with my third submission a few months later. There were no voterings or favours from friends involved (I don't know anyone in real life who reads HN, let alone has an account), it just happened.