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Personal anecdote: I've posted something in the past which, perhaps due to a timezone mismatch with the majority of users or something else, got no points and n
by rvieira 4y ago
Personal anecdote: I've posted something in the past which, perhaps due to a timezone mismatch with the majority of users or something else, got no points and no comments.
A few months later I got an email from the mods inviting me to submit it again, since they saw it could interest folks in here. I did it and it got hundreds of comments.
So at least there's some mechanism to "salvage" potentially interesting stories, although it's a black-box to me :)
- viraptor 4y ago> perhaps due to a timezone mismatch There's been a few blog posts about the best time to post. For example: https://blog.rmotr.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news-2935118cb3d6 https://blog.rmotr.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news-...
- sph 4y agoI'm aware of it, and I'm pretty sure many know about it, but I refuse to play this way. In fact, sharing this information encourages others to game the system, lowering the overall quality of the content.
- manx 4y agoThat was the Second-Chance Pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- asicsp 4y agoCan be checked via https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
- chirau 4y agoWow. This is great. How do you guys know these extra features of HN? Is there a site map of HN? So maybe one can explore the other pages that are not linked from anywhere on the homepage.
- asicsp 4y agoNot sure if there's a page listing all such features. I might have come across and bookmarked it somewhere, but can't find if there was one. I remember pool because I visit it daily (after I found it mentioned in some thread).
- pwpw 4y agoAt the bottom of the homepage, there is a link titled “lists” that links to many of these pages. Active is my favorite list as it points to posts with high discussion activity.