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HN ranking system is unknown to me. However I recently started clicking on domains just to discover that many people are adding the same stuff several times. Ma
by dzek69 8y ago
HN ranking system is unknown to me. However I recently started clicking on domains just to discover that many people are adding the same stuff several times. Maybe this is the way now?
- dang 8y agoA small number of reposts is ok if a story hasn't had attention yet. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. This is to mitigate the randomness of what gets traction, because otherwise too many good stories would fall through the cracks. Lots more explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20reposts%20mitigate https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20reposts%20cracks https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...