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This has been submitted to HN quite a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426662 (Most comments; 11

This has been submitted to HN quite a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426662 (Most comments; 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417067 (3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25546867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25546867 (Most recent; 89 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25424852

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Darkphibre 6y ago
Hooray! Looks like I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. :) https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
skinkestek 6y ago
Wasn't aware of that. Resubmitting interesting content that hasn't got traction earlier on is however explicitly allowed in the guidelines IIRC.
- pessimizer 6y ago
  And linking past threads on the same subject is helpful.
monkeybutton 6y ago
Interesting that the most comments it got before was 11, and today it succeeds and makes it to the front page! This is a good illustration of whether or not submissions get any traction can be fairly stochastic. On topic, stack overflow does exactly what the article is talking about; They lock down their sitemap and make special exceptions for the Google bot: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98087 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98087 https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33965/how-does-stack-overflow-protect-its-sitemap https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33965/how-does-stac... I can understand SO's reasoning but it only perpetuates the incumbents' stranglehold on the internet.
- jszymborski 6y ago
  I think it's partly because they create a website which reported on the status of the Ever Given which rose to 1. on the front page. I feel like I often see submissions which are, even tangentially, related to front page material rise very quickly. Regardless, congrats to Knuckleheads Club for fighting the good fight.
  - skinkestek 6y ago
    You are right, that was how I found it.
- judge2020 6y ago
  > They lock down their sitemap and make special exceptions for the Google bot: Their robots.txt, on the other hand, is more restrictive of Googlebot: https://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt https://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /*/ivc/* Disallow: /users/flair/ Disallow: /jobs/n/* ..

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Darkphibre 6y ago

Hooray! Looks like I'm one of today's lucky 10,000. :) https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/

skinkestek 6y ago

Wasn't aware of that. Resubmitting interesting content that hasn't got traction earlier on is however explicitly allowed in the guidelines IIRC.

pessimizer 6y ago
And linking past threads on the same subject is helpful.

monkeybutton 6y ago

Interesting that the most comments it got before was 11, and today it succeeds and makes it to the front page! This is a good illustration of whether or not submissions get any traction can be fairly stochastic. On topic, stack overflow does exactly what the article is talking about; They lock down their sitemap and make special exceptions for the Google bot: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98087 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/98087 https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33965/how-does-stack-overflow-protect-its-sitemap https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33965/how-does-stac... I can understand SO's reasoning but it only perpetuates the incumbents' stranglehold on the internet.

jszymborski 6y ago
I think it's partly because they create a website which reported on the status of the Ever Given which rose to 1. on the front page. I feel like I often see submissions which are, even tangentially, related to front page material rise very quickly. Regardless, congrats to Knuckleheads Club for fighting the good fight.
- skinkestek 6y ago
  You are right, that was how I found it.
judge2020 6y ago
> They lock down their sitemap and make special exceptions for the Google bot: Their robots.txt, on the other hand, is more restrictive of Googlebot: https://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt https://stackoverflow.com/robots.txt User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /*/ivc/* Disallow: /users/flair/ Disallow: /jobs/n/* ..