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I am not sure there is anything suspicious but I often see stories from the same sites making the front page of HN News. I am guessing that most of these storie

by SeanDav 14y ago

I am not sure there is anything suspicious but I often see stories from the same sites making the front page of HN News. I am guessing that most of these stories are there because they are of interest but sometimes I wonder... The Atlantic, NY Times, Techcrunch, Extreme Tech, TheNextWeb, Github, bbc are the main ones off the top of my head. Unless someone has already done it it, it would be very interesting to see the break down of front page stories by source and by poster.

diego 14y ago
I think there's a bit of a self-fulfilling effect going on: readers know that stories by these sites do well on Hacker News, so when they see an interesting one that hasn't been published, they submit it. I've seen this first hand: many of my blog posts are submitted to Hacker News shortly after I tweet them. Sometimes I know the submitter, and sometimes I have no idea who he/she is. This of course is independent from what the article discusses. It's possible there are sites who make an effort to get hundreds of votes on HN but I doubt that's the case with TC, the NYTimes, etc.
DanBC 14y ago
> Unless someone has already done it it, it would be very interesting to see the break down of front page stories by source and by poster. It would be fascinating to see who posts what. Sometimes people only ever post from one source. Some people only post from a small selection of sources. The list of sources you give is odd. Some of those have god quality content. Others, not so much.
benologist 14y ago
ExtremeTech's parent company Ziff Davis (also geek.com and pcmag.com) accounts: - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 (their social media marketing manager, according to LinkedIn) - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a Then there's the mystery of: - Maxko87's (now hellbanned) autosubmitter for ExtremeTech: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016 - evo_9 who heavily submits stories, about 50% of which are extremetech.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9 - ukdm who heavily submits stories, about 50% of which are geek.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm TechCrunch I think is as simple as YC startups going there and then propping each other's articles up. The Atlantic I'm not sure about, but they did just get busted spamming Reddit so I wouldn't be surprised. GitHub probably has high double-digits overlapping users on a site like this, I doubt they need to do anything nefarious.
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- icelancer 14y ago
  I habitually upvote the GitHub posts; they're always full of great information. I doubt they need much help to stick on HN.
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by SeanDav 14y ago

diego 14y ago

I think there's a bit of a self-fulfilling effect going on: readers know that stories by these sites do well on Hacker News, so when they see an interesting one that hasn't been published, they submit it. I've seen this first hand: many of my blog posts are submitted to Hacker News shortly after I tweet them. Sometimes I know the submitter, and sometimes I have no idea who he/she is. This of course is independent from what the article discusses. It's possible there are sites who make an effort to get hundreds of votes on HN but I doubt that's the case with TC, the NYTimes, etc.

DanBC 14y ago

> Unless someone has already done it it, it would be very interesting to see the break down of front page stories by source and by poster. It would be fascinating to see who posts what. Sometimes people only ever post from one source. Some people only post from a small selection of sources. The list of sources you give is odd. Some of those have god quality content. Others, not so much.

benologist 14y ago

ExtremeTech's parent company Ziff Davis (also geek.com and pcmag.com) accounts: - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=russellholly - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82 (their social media marketing manager, according to LinkedIn) - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=11031a Then there's the mystery of: - Maxko87's (now hellbanned) autosubmitter for ExtremeTech: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016 - evo_9 who heavily submits stories, about 50% of which are extremetech.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9 http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9 - ukdm who heavily submits stories, about 50% of which are geek.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm TechCrunch I think is as simple as YC startups going there and then propping each other's articles up. The Atlantic I'm not sure about, but they did just get busted spamming Reddit so I wouldn't be surprised. GitHub probably has high double-digits overlapping users on a site like this, I doubt they need to do anything nefarious.

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icelancer 14y ago
I habitually upvote the GitHub posts; they're always full of great information. I doubt they need much help to stick on HN.
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