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Posting on HN has become an artform that Im not skilled in. Years ago, you could just post an interesting post you can across and wrote, and frequently they wou
by lbj 5y ago
Posting on HN has become an artform that Im not skilled in. Years ago, you could just post an interesting post you can across and wrote, and frequently they would jump to the top.
Today it seems to need shadow accounts, or buy booster packs or some such. Suffice it to say when I announced ZimTik, noone noticed.
caveat: I could be generalizing based on a few personal experiences.
- gnicholas 5y agoI don't think shadow accounts are necessary, and given the ring detection HN uses, this could actually hurt you. My experience has been that sometimes you post something and it absolutely takes off. Other times you post something and it falls completely flat. I can't tell what causes the difference, but it's good that they're doing things like the second-chance pool to blunt the extreme variability.