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And I posted that here last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743918 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743918 HN's algorithm is interesting lately
by ojbyrne 16y ago
And I posted that here last week:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743918 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743918
HN's algorithm is interesting lately. My posting had more upvotes, I have better karma than this poster, it was on the day it appeared on the Big Picture, and linked to the original, not to some blogspammer.
Mine never got above the second page.
- gojomo 16y agoHeadlines are everything. "The Big Picture: Human Landscapes in SW Florida" is a lot more cryptic and boring than "Aerial Footage: Portrait of a Housing Bust". Also, I suspect that on weekdays, submissions and voting traffic are higher. That means more votes are required to reach the front page, and less time is spent on page one of 'new' to earn those votes.
- ojbyrne 16y agoYour second point is valid, and even your first point, but I do try to be honest in the choosing the headline. It's the original headline, with "The Big Picture:" added at the beginning and in this case there's plenty of pictures on the Big Picture page that don't necessarily represent a "bust." It seems that, if I accept your first point, I also have to accept that HN is becoming more sensationalistic, and I (and I suspect, others), are unhappy about that.