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OK, I shared this article one day ago, and there was zero traction. Now, it says it was posted 3 hours ago, and it is on the homepage. Could someone shed some l

OK, I shared this article one day ago, and there was zero traction. Now, it says it was posted 3 hours ago, and it is on the homepage. Could someone shed some light :)?

ZephyrBlu 6y ago
Luck of the draw.
themacguffinman 6y ago
I get that it might feel a little unfair but it's probably just bad luck/timing. My sincere advice for your own sake: don't worry about it, content aggregation rankings are fickle. Try not to get invested in those capricious judgements. If I may speculate a bit: HN has a different ranking algorithm to reddit, but I suspect they both share similarities in the way they are influenced by early upvotes which build momentum towards a top ranking. If your post was unlucky and missed a bunch of people who would have been interested at the time, then it'll probably fade away.
- stanislavb 6y ago
  No, I think I didn't explain the situation clearly. The post is still submitted by my user. It's not like someone else posted in a different moment etc. I'm pretty much aware about the luck/timing factor. It's more like, there's is some hidden functionality I'm not aware of or there is a moderator what manually bumped the popularity of the post and changed the post date ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ p.s. I don't get the downvoting of my comment. Could someone shed some light on that too :D?
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - rolleiflex 6y ago
    Yes, IIRC dang mentioned once that a 'second chance' feature exists where a mod can give it a second shot if they decide it's interesting. I think it's essentially discretionary and it doesn't edit the votes, it just makes the submit 'new' again, like resetting the clock, so the submission has another shot. I suspect you were getting downvotes for your first comment because it sounds like you're complaining about submitting the same thing and not getting traction, and then somebody else's submission getting it later on.
    - stanislavb 6y ago
      Thanks mate. It makes sense now.
  - ilaksh 6y ago
    A mod selected it and gave it some kind of boost or home page position.
tinco 6y ago
Only 20% of the submissions get 80% of the views ;) edit: oops, didn't notice you mean it's still your submission but the timestamp has changed. That is strange, I guess this is a change in the HN system. Maybe now when someone resubmits your link it'll be counted as a new submission, but with the original submitter as the author?

OK, I shared this article one day ago, and there was zero traction. Now, it says it was posted 3 hours ago, and it is on the homepage. Could someone shed some light :)?

ZephyrBlu 6y ago

Luck of the draw.

themacguffinman 6y ago

I get that it might feel a little unfair but it's probably just bad luck/timing. My sincere advice for your own sake: don't worry about it, content aggregation rankings are fickle. Try not to get invested in those capricious judgements. If I may speculate a bit: HN has a different ranking algorithm to reddit, but I suspect they both share similarities in the way they are influenced by early upvotes which build momentum towards a top ranking. If your post was unlucky and missed a bunch of people who would have been interested at the time, then it'll probably fade away.

stanislavb 6y ago
No, I think I didn't explain the situation clearly. The post is still submitted by my user. It's not like someone else posted in a different moment etc. I'm pretty much aware about the luck/timing factor. It's more like, there's is some hidden functionality I'm not aware of or there is a moderator what manually bumped the popularity of the post and changed the post date ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ p.s. I don't get the downvoting of my comment. Could someone shed some light on that too :D?
- deleted 6y ago
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- rolleiflex 6y ago
  Yes, IIRC dang mentioned once that a 'second chance' feature exists where a mod can give it a second shot if they decide it's interesting. I think it's essentially discretionary and it doesn't edit the votes, it just makes the submit 'new' again, like resetting the clock, so the submission has another shot. I suspect you were getting downvotes for your first comment because it sounds like you're complaining about submitting the same thing and not getting traction, and then somebody else's submission getting it later on.
  - stanislavb 6y ago
    Thanks mate. It makes sense now.
- ilaksh 6y ago
  A mod selected it and gave it some kind of boost or home page position.

tinco 6y ago

Only 20% of the submissions get 80% of the views ;) edit: oops, didn't notice you mean it's still your submission but the timestamp has changed. That is strange, I guess this is a change in the HN system. Maybe now when someone resubmits your link it'll be counted as a new submission, but with the original submitter as the author?