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Wow, Dustin sure has been prolific on HN lately. Four front page articles in the last few days. Prior to this week, he popped up in my news reader maybe once a
by peterjmag 14y ago
Wow, Dustin sure has been prolific on HN lately. Four front page articles in the last few days. Prior to this week, he popped up in my news reader maybe once a month.
I'm not complaining, mind you. Just acknowledging and applauding his renewed motivation to write.
- klochner 14y agoI think it's self-fulfilling - people see his posts score high for a submission, so they scramble to be the first to submit his next one, or automate submission through a bot/rss. That agrees with the observation that this post hit 15 points before anyone commented, with the first 2 comments not even related to the blog entry content.
- dbaupp 14y agoI agree with the rest, but it's not that unusual to get several points without comments. (e.g. as an extreme case: I recently submitted one that made it to 50 before the first comment, and dropped off the front page at ~60 with just that comment.)