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How? When I post something and it happens to be recently posted, it automatically becomes an upvote. I'm generally fine with it, except when it has 1-5 votes

by gkya 8y ago

How? When I post something and it happens to be recently posted, it automatically becomes an upvote. I'm generally fine with it, except when it has 1-5 votes and will never see the front page. HN has so many secret behaviour that it became boring by now. I don't think I will bother posting a story again, because it's very hard to get some discussion to happen around a post (which is the whole point of posting a link for me), whereas in most Reddit subs, even if your post is in the -1 to 1 votes range, you can still get useful answers or interesting comments.

rubyn00bie 8y ago
It used to be you could add something trivial to the URL like a trailing slash or some non-existent params et voila! New submission.
beefhash 8y ago
> How? When I post something and it happens to be recently posted, it automatically becomes an upvote. It seems that sometimes, high karma accounts can submit a dupe. But I don't think it always works. Maybe it's a lower dupe submission check timeout. As for submissions, I'd recommend trying to land in the American morning/early European afternoon. That's when most people seem to browse and thus you have a better chance of getting upvoted to the front page. You may also be interested in this: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
- gkya 8y ago
  I'm in Turkey which is UTC+3, and I usually submit (well I don't usually submit, but) around noon or evening, which happen to be the moments when I usually check my feeds and my mail for newsletters. Strategical submitting seems too much to me, as if I was doing it for the karma points rather than the discussion. > It seems that sometimes, high karma accounts can submit a dupe. But I don't think it always works. Maybe it's a lower dupe submission check timeout. Yeah, yet another enigmatic "natural phenomenon" of HN. I appreciate the link you've given, but my actual point was that this sort of unknowable phenomena discourages participation. For example some time ago the [vouch] links disappeared for me. Some more time ago edits became impossible (2h is too short of a time, say I write something silly, 5h later I check back, and want to append an apology or a clarification; that's impossible, I need to reply to myself and hope people see that before scalding me). Also can not downvote after a day. What if I came across some misinformation that was older? Detaching threads is awful, because your words are removed from context; why not delete instead? Green usernames are an awful idea, most often I don't care about the poster, and why mark people because their accounts are new? Nobody needs that information. These sort of things prove to me that HN is not a "community", but more of an "order". We don't get to decide anything.

by gkya 8y ago

rubyn00bie 8y ago

It used to be you could add something trivial to the URL like a trailing slash or some non-existent params et voila! New submission.

beefhash 8y ago

> How? When I post something and it happens to be recently posted, it automatically becomes an upvote. It seems that sometimes, high karma accounts can submit a dupe. But I don't think it always works. Maybe it's a lower dupe submission check timeout. As for submissions, I'd recommend trying to land in the American morning/early European afternoon. That's when most people seem to browse and thus you have a better chance of getting upvoted to the front page. You may also be interested in this: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

gkya 8y ago
I'm in Turkey which is UTC+3, and I usually submit (well I don't usually submit, but) around noon or evening, which happen to be the moments when I usually check my feeds and my mail for newsletters. Strategical submitting seems too much to me, as if I was doing it for the karma points rather than the discussion. > It seems that sometimes, high karma accounts can submit a dupe. But I don't think it always works. Maybe it's a lower dupe submission check timeout. Yeah, yet another enigmatic "natural phenomenon" of HN. I appreciate the link you've given, but my actual point was that this sort of unknowable phenomena discourages participation. For example some time ago the [vouch] links disappeared for me. Some more time ago edits became impossible (2h is too short of a time, say I write something silly, 5h later I check back, and want to append an apology or a clarification; that's impossible, I need to reply to myself and hope people see that before scalding me). Also can not downvote after a day. What if I came across some misinformation that was older? Detaching threads is awful, because your words are removed from context; why not delete instead? Green usernames are an awful idea, most often I don't care about the poster, and why mark people because their accounts are new? Nobody needs that information. These sort of things prove to me that HN is not a "community", but more of an "order". We don't get to decide anything.