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It'd be interesting to see what the split is between people upvoting under 'new' versus duplicate story submissions. I'm betting that the dupe submissions are m
by BenSS 15y ago
It'd be interesting to see what the split is between people upvoting under 'new' versus duplicate story submissions. I'm betting that the dupe submissions are much more frequent since highly on-topic posts from lesser known sources will often just vanish entirely.
For instance, I submitted a story about WalmartLabs from mercurynews that didn't go anywhere. A few hours later, a new submission on it from a different source zoomed up to the front page within minutes.
- davidtyleryork 15y agoHonestly, I think this is just the nature of the social beast that we are working with. Whether things get "picked up" or not are often based on a lot of arbitrary, impossible-to-track variables such as "how many people interested in WalmartLabs happened to be looking at /newest within 20 minutes of your post". While there are definitely instances of causality that can even be extrapolated into trends, luck is always a key factor in these services
- brudgers 15y agoThe timing submissions has a huge effect. Posting at a busy time makes a story far more likely to get buried. Posting at 6:oo am Saturday morning is more likely to provide enough time for a story to gain traction than 10am Monday.