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I 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
by klochner 14y ago
I 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.)