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The author of this post submitted it 45 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869264 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869264 Interesting how the l
by sga 16y ago
The author of this post submitted it 45 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869264 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869264
Interesting how the luck of getting noticed on the new page is so important to getting engagement. I wonder if in this case it's the difference in titles.
- J3L2404 16y agoDupDetector dropped the ball on this one. ;)
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoThis is one of the final experiments. DupDetector found some information, and using that I've deliberately resubmitted something that was submitted several weeks ago, that I think deserves attention, that gained no attention last time, and at a time that I thought might be more suitable. DupDetector did find the repetition, but I'm no longer acting on its findings. People seem to resent it too much.
- user24 16y agoironic, since this was actually submitted by RiderOfGiraffes - the user behind DupDetector!
- moconnor 16y agoI was pretty surprised to find this on the frontpage. I've noticed that the new page is a brutal place; anyone who had a twitter following (or a few friends) prepared to throw in a few votes right after submission would probably be guaranteed to front page and pick up enough visits to give the page a fair score. In this case, I think submitter is more important than title - RiderOfGiraffes is very well-known and probably has his own version of the pg effect.
- 3pt14159 16y agoYeah, that doesn't really work in the long run. I organize the Toronto HN Nights, and even though a whole bunch of us upvoted TOHNN 2, it languished. I assume that we were caught in a vote ring (because naturally people from Toronto consistently upvote anything to do with Toronto). In my opinion the title is much more important than having a few friends.