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So why are there posts that have 1 point and no comments in "Ask HN"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30140909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3014090
by alexmingoia 5y ago
So why are there posts that have 1 point and no comments in "Ask HN"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30140909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30140909
I had specifically tested this with a post the other day, and deleted it as soon as I saw editing the title made it show up. It had only 1 point, no upvotes. I will not press the issue further. It doesn't matter.
- dang 5y agoAh, you're right - it's more complicated than I thought. The code that generates /ask doesn't exclude 1-point stories (so the point about there being a threshold isn't strictly accurate). However, it only considers the top 1500 stories in overall ranking. Stories with 1 point soon fall out of the top 1500. What this means is that a story with 1 point may show up on /ask for a little while (most likely just a few seconds), and then will disappear from /ask, unless and until it gets more upvotes. That's why so many of the posts on https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew don't show up on https://news.ycombinator.com/ask https://news.ycombinator.com/ask. It definitely doesn't have to do with title edits, though.
- alexmingoia 5y agoThank you for clarifying Dan.