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> I still haven't managed to crack Hacker News, though. Tough audience. Just link a bunch of studies to anything you say.[^1] It doesn't actually matter if the
by rosalinekarr 9y ago
> I still haven't managed to crack Hacker News, though. Tough audience.
Just link a bunch of studies to anything you say.[^1] It doesn't actually matter if they're related.[^2] No one really checks the sources anyway.[^3]
[^1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02876 https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02876
[^2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02728 https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02728
[^3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03799 https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03799
- tjalfi 9y agoThis hasn't been true for me. My top 3 posts [0, 1, 2] are all fairly trite. All three of these were rated much higher than posts with extensive citations. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538068 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13441744 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13441744 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13594765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13594765 Edited: This post already has a higher score than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14180432 which has five citations.
- mrkgnao 9y agoCompare this low-effort comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14124411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14124411 to these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016438 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016438 Getting "in" when a post has few comments and is going to attract a lot of comment readership quickly or stay on the frontpage for a while is probably more important than pure comment quality.
- 3131s 9y agoAbsolutely true, and especially problematic because by their nature high-quality comments will take more time to formulate and therefore always be late to the party and get less visibility.
- Xcelerate 9y agoHaha no way. My highest rated posts have all been some vapid feel-good thing that I posted shortly after an article was submitted to HN. My detailed explanations that link to studies rarely get more than 10 points (same phenomenon occurs on Quora as well actually...)
- 3131s 9y agoI always wonder how much these factors affect a comment's score: * Proximity to the top of the page * Time of day posted * Number of sibling comments and the score of those comments On reddit, for example, it seems impossible to get noticed once there are already a few highly-upvoted replies to the comment you're replying to.
- fudged71 9y agoI've been kicking myself that I didn't take sociology in university to study conversational dynamics on threaded internet forums. It continues to fascinate me