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This would be an awesome break for me, but I'm dealing with a bunch of health issues right now so I'll have to pass. I'm wondering what would happen if this go
by i336_ 11y ago
This would be an awesome break for me, but I'm dealing with a bunch of health issues right now so I'll have to pass.
I'm wondering what would happen if this got posted to /r/technology though. My initial thought was the epic vote count for something like this, but then I realized it might be outright banned.
The reason I thought it would be interesting was the variety of responses it would attract.
IMO this isn't something someone should take any initiative with; if OP wants to do this, it would be for him to do himself. I was just wondering.
- trevyn 11y agoThanks for this pointer -- I'm pretty sure I did get soft-banned on HN; this post doesn't appear on the front page even though it briefly did and is well under the points/time threshold for doing so. Since HN is a recruiting tool for YC, I can see how something even vaguely resembling a job post would be stepping on their toes.
- minimaxir 11y agoSelf-posts have an inherent penalty.
- i336_ 11y agoHuh, TIL.
- i336_ 11y agoThe voting code in the copy of Arc HN runs is not public (the rest of it is - https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc) because apparently business decisions are made off of it and it would be trivial to game it. That said, I'm fairly certain it involves some kind of "keep the ball afloat" algorithm, where more upvotes in a smaller time period gives it a higher internal score than a slower sequence of upvotes would. This post has been upvoted very slowly, and I theorise this is why it's on page >2.