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This managed to get 15 points in under an hour despite being a not-extremely-interesting article from 2014 with an inconclusive 'update' that was simply a repor

This managed to get 15 points in under an hour despite being a not-extremely-interesting article from 2014 with an inconclusive 'update' that was simply a reportage of the subsequent discussion on reddit. Details on the submission: The account was created 698 days ago, but there is no record of any comment or submission until 240 days ago. Submissions are infrequent (6) until 90 days ago; since this time there have been 30 submissions. Six of those are marked [dead] or [flagged]. Most of the submissions only score two or three points. Two were very successful. Also starting 90 days ago is the account's run of three comments. All of them are root-level comments. The first, 90 days ago, is a lengthy quote with the words "Couldn't agree more" added to it. At 14 days, the most recent is a citation of a fact to a link with the putative source. The remaining comment, at 45 days, is a simple inference of a fact not mentioned in the associated article, albeit one that would impress me if an automated system had made it. My own conclusion: Probably fifteen of us clicked the arrow without reading the article because the link text contained the words 'Facebook', 'MVC', and 'Flux'. I realize having written this that it's actually a bit small-minded and mean-spirited to think like that, and I would love to hear anyone's defence as to why this article about Flux would be a good one to read over a year after publication, if in fact I am wrong about the (current) value of the article in the opinion of anyone who has read it.

prawn 11y ago
"Most of the submissions only score two or three points. Two were very successful." No comment on the rest, but that quote above probably describes my submission history and I do little more than submit things I think are interesting or might interest fellow HN readers. e.g., nothing out of the ordinary. I've previously submitted a link that Paul Graham tweeted, and it was quickly marked as dead/flagged, so a number of dead/flagged links might not necessarily mean much either.
t0mbstone 11y ago
Hacker news REALLY needs a downvote arrow if we want a way to keep things fresh and relevant.
betolink 11y ago
WOW!!! I got a HN submission sentiment analysis! I normally don't comment on the submissions in general but I always submit stuff when it looks interesting to me, no matter if the article, video etc was made yesterday or 50 years ago. In this case I was reading about a new JS framework called REDUX[https://github.com/rackt/redux https://github.com/rackt/redux] and started to think about trends in software development before I ran into this "updated" article. It's interesting to me how we went from from sync to async, from MVC to a flow and vice versa, now what seems funny is that it only takes a big company to throw a "new" pattern or framework to make everybody think that if THEY are doing it then we should also do it. And if people clicked just because it says "AAA company says you should use (insert current hipster framework)" kind of proves my point. So no, I'm not a robot @escape_goat but thanks for making me pass the reverse Turing test =)
- escape_goat 11y ago
  Hello fellow non-robot @betolink! I too an a non-robot. We should go to a vendor to purchase units of food sometime. A big company throwing weight behind a paradigm is a good predictor of continued relevance, so I can understand the response, given the volume and churn of overly-evangelized javascript frameworks/patterns/concepts out there.

prawn 11y ago

"Most of the submissions only score two or three points. Two were very successful." No comment on the rest, but that quote above probably describes my submission history and I do little more than submit things I think are interesting or might interest fellow HN readers. e.g., nothing out of the ordinary. I've previously submitted a link that Paul Graham tweeted, and it was quickly marked as dead/flagged, so a number of dead/flagged links might not necessarily mean much either.

t0mbstone 11y ago

Hacker news REALLY needs a downvote arrow if we want a way to keep things fresh and relevant.

betolink 11y ago

WOW!!! I got a HN submission sentiment analysis! I normally don't comment on the submissions in general but I always submit stuff when it looks interesting to me, no matter if the article, video etc was made yesterday or 50 years ago. In this case I was reading about a new JS framework called REDUX[https://github.com/rackt/redux https://github.com/rackt/redux] and started to think about trends in software development before I ran into this "updated" article. It's interesting to me how we went from from sync to async, from MVC to a flow and vice versa, now what seems funny is that it only takes a big company to throw a "new" pattern or framework to make everybody think that if THEY are doing it then we should also do it. And if people clicked just because it says "AAA company says you should use (insert current hipster framework)" kind of proves my point. So no, I'm not a robot @escape_goat but thanks for making me pass the reverse Turing test =)

escape_goat 11y ago
Hello fellow non-robot @betolink! I too an a non-robot. We should go to a vendor to purchase units of food sometime. A big company throwing weight behind a paradigm is a good predictor of continued relevance, so I can understand the response, given the volume and churn of overly-evangelized javascript frameworks/patterns/concepts out there.