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>>" It's content that's king. That's good news for Hacker News because it indicates that what matters there is content and not game playing". << If that were t
by kelvin0 11y ago
>>" It's content that's king. That's good news for Hacker News because it indicates that what matters there is content and not game playing". <<
If that were the case I should have much more Karma. The fact is many times I posted a submission, only to see it slip off the headline in 0.2ms. Then a few days later, someone else (with more Karma) posts the same thing and it stays on for 2 days ... I'm not complaining, simply stating that it is not as cut and dry as the author mentions.
- doki_pen 11y agoIn theory, that shouldn't happen. HN should detect duplicates and just add an upvote to the existing submission when it is resubmitted.
- pjc50 11y agoIn practice, it happens quite a lot. The duplicate detector is easily fooled, and often the same underlying "story" is reported in a bunch of places. Getting traction on an HN submission is very random. Unless it's about discrimination in tech work, at which point it will be flagged off the front page almost immediately.
- adenadel 11y agoAlso, duplicates are only detected for (I think) 8 hours. After that you can resubmit.
- ganeumann 11y agoThe duplicate detector is a bit odd. Not sure what its rules are, but it doesn't always seem to work. One example (only noticed this because I wrote the linked blog post.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860103 : http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908463 : http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html?newpost https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927285 : http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9129911 : http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html
- PopeOfNope 11y agoSomething that shouldn't be overlooked is the fact the author is John Graham-Cumming and you are kelvin0. Almost every one in the top 10 leaderboard posts under their real name. They have more respect and credibility than an anonymous poster. It's one of those annoying and readily exploitable flaws of human nature.
- jgrahamc 11y agoAlso, I clicked on kelvin0 and the only thing the profile says is YCOMT which appears to be You Came On My Tits (at least according to Google).
- kelvin0 11y agoThat being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right? If 'Meta' profile information biases submissions negatively? As mentionned earlier, I am not complaining simply stating a fact. As for YCOMT, it's from a funny episode of a comedy Show I used to watch ... live and learn I guess.
- PopeOfNope 11y ago> That being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right? In my humble opinion, yes, content is not king. But, it's more than just allowing people to put a face to the name. You have to fit in. You have to agree with the political views of the majority. You have to agree with the taboos of the majority. There's a reason Michael O'Church and Zed Shaw aren't on that leaderboard, despite the quality of the content they posted.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> You have to fit in. You have to agree with the political views of the majority. No, you don't; the people with lots of karma don't have homogenous expressed political views, so they can't all agree with the majority, either. How you post about your views is a lot more important than what your views are.
- hellbanner 11y agoThe frontpage algorithm weighs more heavily for those who have previously made frontpage, right?
- cryoshon 11y agoI assume so. Last few weeks I've been able to get frontpage repeatedly with very few upvotes.
- hellbanner 11y agoSomewhere I remember dang saying so to my account.