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HN vote count seems pretty arbitrary. A few months ago I submitted one of my articles and it got 2 points. Someone else submitted it the same or next day and it
by Carpetsmoker 7y ago
HN vote count seems pretty arbitrary. A few months ago I submitted one of my articles and it got 2 points. Someone else submitted it the same or next day and it got 111 points.
10 months ago someone submitted one of my articles and it got 3 points. It got submitted again earlier this month and that one has 401 points.
- lkrubner 7y agoSame here. A few of my posts get 1 or 2 votes the first time they get posted to Hacker News. And then someone resubmits it a few months later and suddenly it gets 300 votes. Occasionally someone like dang, or some other community moderator, suggests I try again.
- danso 7y agoLike most things in life, showing up, and luck, is 50-90% of it. You may have submitted during peak traffic and simply got lost in the flood. Or you submitted at a time when the people most interested in your post happened to be awake or on lunch break.
- GuiA 7y agoAt least in grandparent’s testimony, it sounds like the article still ended up on the front page after the second try. That’s pretty great! If articles of quality always made it to the front page on the second submission at most, we’d be living in a very good world.
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