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Yesterday, I posted an article on HackerNews. Its received 62k views in total so far. HackerNews was the site that kicked off all of the view counts and it quic

Yesterday, I posted an article on HackerNews. Its received 62k views in total so far. HackerNews was the site that kicked off all of the view counts and it quickly jumped to the top spot #1. After it reached the top spot, I thought I would also post it on Reddit. It didn't get a single upvote. It's the third time that a story of mine has made it to the front page of HackerNews and then not received a single visitor on Reddit. In the future I don't think it is worth bothering. Ultimately, 100% of the traffic that I received, would not of happened if it weren't for the upvotes on HackerNews, because from these upvotes everyone started tweeting about it. It received 900 tweets in total. Here was some of the highlights. https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.chrisacky.com/github/trending.png https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.chrisacky.com/githu... (The highest it went to was 800 concurrent users). I'm guessing 60k for an article within 24 hours is a lot!

nikcub 15y ago
> It didn't get a single upvote. that is because it is in the spam filter. you need to message the moderators.
- chrisacky 15y ago
  O right. How did you determine that? To be honest I'm not a redditor. It's not a site that I visit, so I don't understand how it works.
  - skeletonjelly 15y ago
    I check by opening a Chrome Incognito tab (so unauthenticated) and view the "new" page for that subreddit. So http://reddit.com/r/programming/new http://reddit.com/r/programming/new If it's not there I assume it's in the spam queue and message the mods. It's a pretty crap UX but it works to keep out spammers I suppose.
    - eogas 15y ago
      You shouldn't have to use incognito, unless you've got the "don't show stories that I've liked" preference checked.
      - oemta 15y ago
        The point of using incognito is to be unauthenticated. Otherwise, wouldn't the post always be visible to the submitter, regardless of whether or not it is in the spam filter?
        eogas 15y ago
        The post will show up for the submitter on their userpage and in their submitted links panel, however it will not show up in the new queue, not even for mods. This may be different for shadowbanned users, but I don't think it is. Actually, I'm almost certain it's the same for shadowbanned users, because we got two modmail messages today from shadowbanned users asking to have their posts taken out of the spam filter because they can't see them in the new queue.
- ExpiredLink 15y ago
  The decline of r/programming in recent months is due to the moderators selection. r/programming has a moderator problem more than a fan-boy problem.
  - eogas 15y ago
    Would you care to elaborate on this? Are you referring more to the removal of posts that have made it through the filter, or the lack of approval of posts that are stuck in the filter? I think we do a pretty good job. No choice is as clear cut as people would like it to be (especially when it is their own content on the line). I've heard feedback from people who think we do an amazing job at moderating, keeping the ever-growing cesspool from leaking into the sacred realm of /r/programming, and I've heard feedback from people who think we're the devil, and that we're censoring the will of the people, and somebody call the ACLU right now!!! But any community is going to get feedback from those two extremes. That's just how people react to moderation. The fact that there seems to be pretty equal feedback from both extremes tells me that we must either be doing something right, or everything completely wrong.
    - willvarfar 15y ago
      Lots of my posts never get through the spam filter, yet I think they are programming related. http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16399069781/google-moresql-is-real http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16399069781/googl... for example http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13264962223/sum-of-absolute-differences http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13264962223/sum-o... and http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13265364121/popen3 http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13265364121/popen... are two others that I would like to share wider I don't think they ever got through :( (I've lost track of what I've tried to send through now; I tend to delete to tidy up when it fails) Generally, the memory of proggit I have is warm and fuzzy and old. Naturally my memory is selective; but I remember it being far more like HN is now. The comments were less brogrammer frat'ish. Now, they swin further and further daily towards the immature brat'ish frat'ish sadly. Insightful comments are fewer and further between. Maybe proggit needs a restart? The /r/republicofatheism -type reboot is all you can do on reddit because its not self-organising ;) I lament the passing of the good old days.

nikcub 15y ago

> It didn't get a single upvote. that is because it is in the spam filter. you need to message the moderators.

chrisacky 15y ago
O right. How did you determine that? To be honest I'm not a redditor. It's not a site that I visit, so I don't understand how it works.
- skeletonjelly 15y ago
  I check by opening a Chrome Incognito tab (so unauthenticated) and view the "new" page for that subreddit. So http://reddit.com/r/programming/new http://reddit.com/r/programming/new If it's not there I assume it's in the spam queue and message the mods. It's a pretty crap UX but it works to keep out spammers I suppose.
  - eogas 15y ago
    You shouldn't have to use incognito, unless you've got the "don't show stories that I've liked" preference checked.
    - oemta 15y ago
      The point of using incognito is to be unauthenticated. Otherwise, wouldn't the post always be visible to the submitter, regardless of whether or not it is in the spam filter?
      - eogas 15y ago
        The post will show up for the submitter on their userpage and in their submitted links panel, however it will not show up in the new queue, not even for mods. This may be different for shadowbanned users, but I don't think it is. Actually, I'm almost certain it's the same for shadowbanned users, because we got two modmail messages today from shadowbanned users asking to have their posts taken out of the spam filter because they can't see them in the new queue.
ExpiredLink 15y ago
The decline of r/programming in recent months is due to the moderators selection. r/programming has a moderator problem more than a fan-boy problem.
- eogas 15y ago
  Would you care to elaborate on this? Are you referring more to the removal of posts that have made it through the filter, or the lack of approval of posts that are stuck in the filter? I think we do a pretty good job. No choice is as clear cut as people would like it to be (especially when it is their own content on the line). I've heard feedback from people who think we do an amazing job at moderating, keeping the ever-growing cesspool from leaking into the sacred realm of /r/programming, and I've heard feedback from people who think we're the devil, and that we're censoring the will of the people, and somebody call the ACLU right now!!! But any community is going to get feedback from those two extremes. That's just how people react to moderation. The fact that there seems to be pretty equal feedback from both extremes tells me that we must either be doing something right, or everything completely wrong.
  - willvarfar 15y ago
    Lots of my posts never get through the spam filter, yet I think they are programming related. http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16399069781/google-moresql-is-real http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16399069781/googl... for example http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13264962223/sum-of-absolute-differences http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13264962223/sum-o... and http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13265364121/popen3 http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13265364121/popen... are two others that I would like to share wider I don't think they ever got through :( (I've lost track of what I've tried to send through now; I tend to delete to tidy up when it fails) Generally, the memory of proggit I have is warm and fuzzy and old. Naturally my memory is selective; but I remember it being far more like HN is now. The comments were less brogrammer frat'ish. Now, they swin further and further daily towards the immature brat'ish frat'ish sadly. Insightful comments are fewer and further between. Maybe proggit needs a restart? The /r/republicofatheism -type reboot is all you can do on reddit because its not self-organising ;) I lament the passing of the good old days.