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It is time to coin a new phrase: the Hacker News inverse comment-interest ratio. The fewer comments on a story, the more likely it is to be extremely interestin
by philovivero 9y ago
It is time to coin a new phrase: the Hacker News inverse comment-interest ratio. The fewer comments on a story, the more likely it is to be extremely interesting and relevant to a hardcore geek.
Anytime I see a slightly-curious headline with only 0-3 comments, I know it's going to be good.
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- maxerickson 9y agoThat's probably the wrong explanation. There's some kind of velocity factor in the position ranking, so a story that quickly gets a bunch of votes will have a high rank and few comments. But the comments are likely to come as the link sits there for a while.
- vxNsr 9y agoI think this is fairly accurate. It's really easy to upvote something you find interesting, but takes much more time to come up with good comments. Usually these types of articles will generate quite a few comments even though they start out on the top with basically none.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoSimple time to read the article also applies. I've been following this series, so I upvoted it, then read it, then came back to read the comments.