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> something is wrong with the system. Maybe. But really, people were just asleep and didn't feel like waking up to give their upvotes out. Most people who read
by cryptoz 14y ago
> something is wrong with the system.
Maybe. But really, people were just asleep and didn't feel like waking up to give their upvotes out. Most people who read HN were asleep three hours ago. It's Sunday morning, many HN readers are on the west coast of the US. For them, the previous submission was at 4am. Why are you surprised it didn't get many upvotes? Even for US East readers, it was 7am on Sunday.
Timing your submission for when most people are asleep and expecting upvotes is not going to work. If you want people to read it, submit when they're awake.
- k-mcgrady 14y agoThe system should account for this. This is the internet, people are always awake and using the site somewhere in the world. Maybe measuring page views and adapting the algorithm to give more weight to a vote at times when there are few people on the site would help.