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There's simply too many things being submitted. Hundred items per hour. Some people treat HN as a bookmark engine or something like that and submit way too much
by jakub_g 5y ago
There's simply too many things being submitted. Hundred items per hour. Some people treat HN as a bookmark engine or something like that and submit way too much, others self-promote/spam heavily etc.
I noticed often things make it to top of HN after buzzing on Twitter for few hours; perhaps people on HN seeing stuff they already saw on Twitter are more likely to quickly upvote it without reading which lifts it to front page.
However there are a few users whose submissions I see each day on front page and I wonder how they do this.
- hidden-spyder 5y agoI've never noticed this. Which users have you noticed ending up on front page regularly?
- jakub_g 5y agoE.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=todsacerdoti https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=todsacerdoti 64k karma in 2 years Checking current front page... Yep there's one from him :) Not every submission gets to page 1 but since he posts several links per day, at least a few each week get there.
- capableweb 5y ago> However there are a few users whose submissions I see each day on front page and I wonder how they do this. Some people simply submit a ton of stuff that could be interesting (looking at you tosh [https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tosh https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tosh], who seems to average like 5 submissions/day). I'm also confident that the more time you spend around here, the more you learn about what kind of content HN would like and submit it only if you think it has a chance here. I read a lot of different things during the day, but only half of those things are even worthy of a HN submit, while half of those half would actually have a chance of getting upvoted.