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Why not link to the horse's mouth: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-spring.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-

Why not link to the horse's mouth: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-spring.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-sp...

mdwrigh2 14y ago
Actually submitted that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869567 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869567
- donniezazen 14y ago
  Lot of stories get submitted more than one time. People just don't like searching.
luser001 14y ago
Maybe people notice that techcrunch articles get upvoted. Hence they submit TC articles (to get karma. humans love to have more than their fellow of anything: green beans, salt rocks, pieces of paper etc). This can be addressed in two ways: 1) Randomly allow a subset of users to upvote article (like slashdot's moderation system). 2) Cap karma from articles. Sorry if I'm massively mistaken and people don't get karma from article submissions.
- jaredsohn 14y ago
  People do get karma from article submissions. Several ideas related to limiting the influence of article submissions were made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554
- cpeterso 14y ago
  I also wonder if people repost a different article/URL for the same news story, hoping their post will be the one to get upvoted.
  - rhizome 14y ago
    You'd think so, but if you look at both the comments and submissions of "sdtransfer," the poster of this article, they don't seem like they'd be terribly hope-y.
sdtransier 14y ago
Sorry, I saw the article on Techmeme and posted it here. I didn't think about posting the original blog post, but I realize that would have been better. I know that submitting articles gets you more karma, but I didn't do this to get more karma. I don't really care about getting more karma as I'm mostly just a passive observer of HN and not really an active participant. I read a discussion on here the other day about abolishing submission karma, and I agree with it. It doesn't make sense why someone should get more karma just for posting a link, or if they do, more karma should be given for comments than for submissions.

Why not link to the horse's mouth: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-spring.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/spring-cleaning-in-sp...

mdwrigh2 14y ago

Actually submitted that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869567 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869567

donniezazen 14y ago
Lot of stories get submitted more than one time. People just don't like searching.

luser001 14y ago

Maybe people notice that techcrunch articles get upvoted. Hence they submit TC articles (to get karma. humans love to have more than their fellow of anything: green beans, salt rocks, pieces of paper etc). This can be addressed in two ways: 1) Randomly allow a subset of users to upvote article (like slashdot's moderation system). 2) Cap karma from articles. Sorry if I'm massively mistaken and people don't get karma from article submissions.

jaredsohn 14y ago
People do get karma from article submissions. Several ideas related to limiting the influence of article submissions were made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554
cpeterso 14y ago
I also wonder if people repost a different article/URL for the same news story, hoping their post will be the one to get upvoted.
- rhizome 14y ago
  You'd think so, but if you look at both the comments and submissions of "sdtransfer," the poster of this article, they don't seem like they'd be terribly hope-y.

sdtransier 14y ago

Sorry, I saw the article on Techmeme and posted it here. I didn't think about posting the original blog post, but I realize that would have been better. I know that submitting articles gets you more karma, but I didn't do this to get more karma. I don't really care about getting more karma as I'm mostly just a passive observer of HN and not really an active participant. I read a discussion on here the other day about abolishing submission karma, and I agree with it. It doesn't make sense why someone should get more karma just for posting a link, or if they do, more karma should be given for comments than for submissions.