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Slightly off topic, but does anyone know why this is so low on HN? It has more votes and is more recent than anything except the "How I didn't make a billion do
by basil-rash 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know why this is so low on HN? It has more votes and is more recent than anything except the "How I didn't make a billion dollar company" post, but is at rank 11.
https://imgur.com/a/bifDABu https://imgur.com/a/bifDABu
- baby 8y agoHN penalizes post randomly sometimes. The last time I had one of my blogpost pretty high on the front page, it lasted an hour and then went directly to 5th-page. It gave me an impression that everything on the FP is heavily handpicked.
- floatingatoll 8y agoThose penalties can occur simply from users flagging posts, which is likely what happened here, given the vitriol elsewhere in-thread about Amazon.
- anythingnonidin 8y agoProbably got flagged by some users.
- loeg 8y agoHN penalizes high discussion posts for being gossipy.
- elihu 8y agoThe title isn't something that I would have had any idea what it was about or why I should read it if I hadn't been linked here from a comment thread with a more informative title.
- acheron 8y agoYep. I don't read medium posts as a general principle, and the title meant nothing to me so I skipped right over it. Only saw it in another thread.