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Preface: I don't know if this actually happens or not, but... My guess is that people submit stories from certain sources, no matter what the content is, to tr

by bradly 16y ago

Preface: I don't know if this actually happens or not, but... My guess is that people submit stories from certain sources, no matter what the content is, to try and be the first submissions and get the karma. If ~15 people do this, the submission is going to rise rapidly, not because of it's content, but because of people trying to cash in on a well-known name. For instance, I think an Arrington article is going to get a lot of votes right away because of people trying to be the first submission, not because of the content article. If there was no karma associated with submissions, people wouldn't race to get these types of articles submitted. Again, just a guess.

silentbicycle 16y ago
> My guess is that people submit stories from certain sources, no matter what the content is, to try and be the first submissions and get the karma. Looking at the submission history for some users easily confirms this. Along with other adjustments to incentives for submitting content, some sort of check for whether most of the user's submissions come from the same domain name could potentially be useful - especially for domain names with the top X% of all submissions site-wide (e.g. techcrunch).