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3 points are ~the threshold to put you on the front page for a very short time to maybe get more votes. Comments are not a positive influence as far as I know.
by viraptor 2y ago
3 points are ~the threshold to put you on the front page for a very short time to maybe get more votes. Comments are not a positive influence as far as I know. (But a high comment-to-upvote ratio can apply a penalty)
You just got lucky to see a new post at the right time.
- greatgib 2y agoI was thinking about something like that at first, but still doesn't make sense compared to other "new" entries. For example, the following one was posted 1h ago, have almost 50 points and comments, and is just at the 15th place now when the IBM one is around 9th with 6 points. When I did my first comment it already had a lot of points but was on second page of results. Just around the same time as IBM post, there was 2 other posts with also 3 points that aren't anywhere near any of the "top" pages: One 5 mins before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901058 One 15 min later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901168 And 20 mins later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41901210 Obviously points are increasing a lot now that the post is in the topest of the top.