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This 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
by tjalfi 10y ago
This 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
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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 10y 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 10y 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.