I've had blog posts "authentically" make the front page, and had blog posts disappear without a trace. Sometimes the same blog post gets both behaviors, being m

I've had blog posts "authentically" make the front page, and had blog posts disappear without a trace. Sometimes the same blog post gets both behaviors, being much more successful after someone reposts it. There's a whole lot of randomness in what gets upvoted. You can't take it personally. As far as getting your friends to upvote the article, keep in mind that HN has some sort of voting ring detection, so this may be penalizing you. I did a fairly detailed reverse engineering of the ranking formula a few years ago: http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.html http://www.righto.com/2009/06/how-does-newsyc-ranking-work.h...