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No, that's not how Hacker News works. Karma is essentially meaningless after 501 karma and does not affect post placement.
by minimaxir 4y ago
No, that's not how Hacker News works. Karma is essentially meaningless after 501 karma and does not affect post placement.
- PaulHoule 4y agoYep, they are just taking advantage of people's ignorance. The startup of the week is always hiring a marketing manager to promote their site and they are always baffled why get blocked posting an endless stream of articles from their own blog. If you participate in HN like a real HN user (posting articles from a variety of sources that sometimes get voted up) that's the best you can do. If you do that you can slip an occasional link to your own site and people might vote for it... IF they find it interesting. That's a big IF for a lot of people.
- newaccount74 4y agoYou can also just post links to your own site only. No need to post other stuff just to get a varied post history. As long as the submissions are relevant to HN they'll get upvoted.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI watch the "new" page a lot and something I see a lot is that marketing manager asking why his posts are going to dead right away. It's nthat there's a filter that suppresses people who keep posting links from the same site. It absolutely drives that person nuts but by definition that person is ignorant and not part of the community.
- minimaxir 4y agoSome accounts/domains do get shadowbanned for only linking to their own content.
- threatofrain 4y agoI don't think we have the full picture over how these things work, and I believe HN's official policy is that the details are deliberately vague to stop front-page gaming. For example, we know that mods have a role in curating the front page, but we don't know enough of the details to simulate the mechanics.