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Why is this top post on hn within one minute of posting?

• TZubiri 1y ago
  Maybe karma affects post visibility?
  • mkagenius 1y ago
    No, then he would keep posting whatever every day
    • TZubiri 1y ago
      Maybe karma/posts? So if you get 100upvotes per post, you get prio'd
      • mkagenius 1y ago
        It can't be that simple, it has to do something with the person who upvoted your post.
• sillyfluke 1y ago
  I'm guessing the speed with which it received its initial few votes. It's a threadbare article with little or no meat on the bone. So it is a little strange.
  • mkagenius 1y ago
    It had literally two votes. Anyway looks like I shouldn't have brought this issue up, getting downvoted
    • sillyfluke 1y ago
      Yeah, you're supposed to email hn instead of posting if you think it's an issue. I've seen 3 point new posts up near the top before so I assumed that's what it was. 2 points top of the page is pretty aggressive tho, it might have been a near instant upvote by someone who was interested in the topic.
  • ge96 1y ago
    Carl Weathers
• Brajeshwar 1y ago
  I don’t know how or why, but I have seen this happen many times. Many of my submissions appear at the front within minutes of receiving 2-3 votes. I have no affiliation with YC, nor are my submissions.
  • mkagenius 1y ago
    Bruh, the amount of posts you are doing!
    • Brajeshwar 1y ago
      I submit about 10-15 and sometimes up to 20 a day. I have developed a typical routine to submit articles. I tend to gather interesting links during the day, and when America’s West Coast wakes up, I submit them in batches of bursts over an hour or so before I retire for the day. https://brajeshwar.com/2023/hacker-news/ https://brajeshwar.com/2023/hacker-news/
      • mkagenius 1y ago
        Wow!