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How do things like this make it to the top of HN? I know it's unrelated, but I'm curious, is it due to the users post history? I mean within 15 minutes of posti
by lawrencevillain 6y ago
How do things like this make it to the top of HN? I know it's unrelated, but I'm curious, is it due to the users post history? I mean within 15 minutes of posting it was down, and it already had 50 upvotes?
- berkes 6y agoWhy do think it should not make it to the top? (Edit: parent comment sounded as if it didn't think the article deserves to be on frontpage HN. re-reading, I see that I might have misread it: sorry in that case)
- cool_dude85 6y agoProbably cause you can't click on the article and read it.
- berkes 6y agoIn that case, cause-effect is turned around: it went down because it hit the frontpage. --- I've had some of my blogpost hit FP of HN: the traffic spike then is huge; HN feed is widely spread over internet. Hours after FP I started getting referers RSS readers, intranets, reposters etc. Running a static file blog, my €5.00/month shared vps hardly missed a beat with the traffic spike; but it's so big that "going down" is pretty normal for anything "dynamic" I presume.
- asutekku 6y agoWhy should a link that does not function go to the top?
- atoav 6y agoBecause often the HN-Hug-of-Death means that a link only stops to function after having reached the top?
- sbierwagen 6y agoPeople upvoting based on the title, without clicking on the link.