I submitted an article I wrote 14 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497512 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497512). As far as I know, none of

I submitted an article I wrote 14 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497512 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497512). As far as I know, none of my friends voted it and it got the the front page with 21 points. I'm not sure how long it stayed there but I received around 5000 visits during the first 2 days and I keep getting 30 or 40 per day to that specific article. I got almost a hundred new RSS followers from this and a dozen or so Twitter followers so I think this was more than enough "traction".