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Ask HN: How many of you have “repost” on HN?
Just curious how many posters have experienced not seeing good traction on their first post, repost again so they get a chance of getting to the front page.
- dusted 6y agoI'm too polite to repost, but I will sometimes plug the stuff I previously posted on the comments, such as when I link to my webring entirely out of context ;) But, no, not really, it sounds reasonable that it would work if done at different times of the day, different amount of traffic and maybe types of people ?
- sawirricardo 6y ago:) the mistery of HN. Kind of loterry, isn't it?
- matt_the_bass 6y agoI posted once with little traction and Dang put my post in some sort of 2nd chance queue since I thought it deserved more traction. dang does a lot of work to curate this site. Thanks Dang!
- O_H_E 6y agoWait ammmm, does sand manually curate the site or you have to send him a link to get a second chance.
- stevekemp 6y agoI received an email once suggesting I repost something that sank without any votes/comments.
- grawprog 6y agoI had an article I posted get a second chance. I got an email from dang saying it had been reposted then it was on the front page for a bit. It did better the second time. I didn't actually have to repost it myself.
- Tomte 6y agoThere are three ways: - You repost yourself. It's a different submission with different ID and URL. It gets no special bonus. - The system automatically reposts your submission. It gets an automatic front page spot (low on the front page), and it drops from the front page quickly if still nobody is interested. The timestamp of your submission is changed, so it looks new (this leads to confusion sometimes). - You get an email with a special submission link. When you resubmit using that link, it's basically the same as #2, as far as I know. I still don't really understand the difference between #2 and #3. Maybe #2 is triggered by super-users and #3 by dang? I have no idea.
- matt_the_bass 6y agoI believe Dang sent me an email notifying me that he manually put it in that queue.
- dave_sid 6y agoWho’s Dang?
- sawirricardo 6y agoWait. this is new to me.
- Jugurtha 6y agoI do post from time to time, in the form of a link to our internal machine learning platform and, more generally, in the form of an Ask HN trying to see what problems people who are active in the field are facing. We're therefore building for ourselves first, but keep an open mind when people who actually do machine learning professionally have problems. We don't "have an audience" and are not backed by an accelerator, and it's not our 'startup idea' to decide to make this. We've been doing ML profitably for many organizations for many years as a company, and this is our tooling to solve problems we faced on real projects with actual stakes. It has shaved three months on a crurrent project of work we won't have to do, and I optimize for that. It is in early access mode to have meaningful conversations with people whose problems we're solving.
- asicsp 6y agoI've reposted a few times and I can recall at least one occasion where the repost got much better traction. It's a nice feature that this is allowed, since there are large number of users and submissions.
- ecesena 6y agoI almost always repost 1-2 times when I have something "big", unless the 1st post hits the home page of course. Most of the times I try a slightly different angle, maybe a variation in the title. It definitely works, in the sense that sometimes you're just unlucky and maybe your post is hidden by big-Co news. I definitely recommend to not exaggerate though, if a post doesn't work, it simply doesn't. Also, I don't think it's about the algorithm, but I generally see some sort of correlation between me commenting around and my posts getting higher results. It might be that people look at my profile and/or I'm more "in the HN lingo" and thus my posts resonate more. So my recommendation is to participate in the community, not just post + repost blindly.
- Sevii 6y agoI haven't tried reposting. Typically, when I submit one of my blog posts I get around 40~ views and zero comments.
- sawirricardo 6y ago> Please don't delete and repost. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place. By the way, I've read the guideline again, but it seems repost is not allowed? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html