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Also submitted four days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2246089 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2246089 although it gains very few upvotes, and

Also submitted four days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2246089 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2246089 although it gains very few upvotes, and no comments. More evidence that getting noticed is largely chance, or gaming.

moultano 16y ago
>More evidence that getting noticed is largely chance, Or chaotic flocking behavior. :)
petercooper 16y ago
What's funny is that I bookmarked it then, checked it out today, tweeted it a few hours ago, and I know Matt. I could be wrong but I think this might have gone full circle! :) But yeah, as ever, not enough people monitor /new (or there's not enough incentive to do so).
- mattkirman 16y ago
  Sorry guys, but that's probably what's happened. I did do a quick site: Google search for the page title but it didn't bring back any results. Apologies for the double post.
  - petercooper 16y ago
    I think the point here is.. it was a good link first time around and it kinda failed in the system so this resubmission turned out for the best! ;-)
saturdayplace 16y ago
Is this a reference to the quality of HN discussion going on lately? I'd lurked long before I ever signed up, and I just always assumed that getting noticed was largely chance. For whatever reason, it feels like you're saying this wasn't always the case.
- wmf 16y ago
  There used to be vastly fewer submissions per day, so if you read /newest once a day you'd see a greater fraction of the submissions. Now that /newest only holds about the last hour, submissions scroll off before very many people even see them.
bootload 16y ago
"... Also submitted four days ago: ...although it gains very few upvotes, and no comments ..." If this wasn't re-posted I wouldn't be able to read it as I missed the first submission. Maybe a suggestion would be having an additional link of 'resumitted' ie: http://news.ycombinator.com/resub http://news.ycombinator.com/resub Then you can catchup on interesting articles previously submitted. As for gaming - submissions has always been flakey. A simple check in the submission code could against previous submissions. Rejecting slight differences in a url.

moultano 16y ago

>More evidence that getting noticed is largely chance, Or chaotic flocking behavior. :)

petercooper 16y ago

What's funny is that I bookmarked it then, checked it out today, tweeted it a few hours ago, and I know Matt. I could be wrong but I think this might have gone full circle! :) But yeah, as ever, not enough people monitor /new (or there's not enough incentive to do so).

mattkirman 16y ago
Sorry guys, but that's probably what's happened. I did do a quick site: Google search for the page title but it didn't bring back any results. Apologies for the double post.
- petercooper 16y ago
  I think the point here is.. it was a good link first time around and it kinda failed in the system so this resubmission turned out for the best! ;-)

saturdayplace 16y ago

Is this a reference to the quality of HN discussion going on lately? I'd lurked long before I ever signed up, and I just always assumed that getting noticed was largely chance. For whatever reason, it feels like you're saying this wasn't always the case.

wmf 16y ago
There used to be vastly fewer submissions per day, so if you read /newest once a day you'd see a greater fraction of the submissions. Now that /newest only holds about the last hour, submissions scroll off before very many people even see them.

bootload 16y ago

"... Also submitted four days ago: ...although it gains very few upvotes, and no comments ..." If this wasn't re-posted I wouldn't be able to read it as I missed the first submission. Maybe a suggestion would be having an additional link of 'resumitted' ie: http://news.ycombinator.com/resub http://news.ycombinator.com/resub Then you can catchup on interesting articles previously submitted. As for gaming - submissions has always been flakey. A simple check in the submission code could against previous submissions. Rejecting slight differences in a url.