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You don't notice the poster and neither do I. But some posters carry enough cred (or have enough friends) that anything they post immediately get a bump out of
by AndrewStephens 10y ago
You don't notice the poster and neither do I. But some posters carry enough cred (or have enough friends) that anything they post immediately get a bump out of the incoming links slush pile.
That's not counting the people who use multiple accounts and bots to push up their content (probably not a problem on hacker news but rife on reddit).
- gist 10y ago> But some posters carry enough cred (or have enough friends) Is that really true? Look at tptacek's submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tptacek https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tptacek
- angelbob 10y agoThat's a very solid list of submissions. Every fourth-or-so submission has hundreds or thousands of points. If you feel that's not great... Dunno. You're using a different yardstick than I am. That looks a lot like people consider his name to add credibility.