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This gives me an appreciation for the "lurkers" on HN. This post has 109 points and 53 comments, right now, and on their stats demo it shows 2,770 unique views
by lgregg 8y ago
This gives me an appreciation for the "lurkers" on HN. This post has 109 points and 53 comments, right now, and on their stats demo it shows 2,770 unique views from hacker news.
- duxup 8y agoFair or not I kinda want to blame the lurkers every time I see a post skyrocket quickly that has a flashy title but the content is bad and all the comments point out how bad it is.... Yay lurkers! Boo lurkers!
- hk__2 8y agoAlso, note that HN links appear in a lot more places than the HN homepage. For example, there are countless Twitter accounts that automatically tweet HN links above some number of upvotes.