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Lately I've noticed posts with barely 10 points getting to HN frontpage. Was it always like this?
by MitPitt 4mo ago
Lately I've noticed posts with barely 10 points getting to HN frontpage. Was it always like this?
- Aboutplants 4mo agoI just assume bots
- iamjackg 4mo agoBots doing what? How would the poster being a bot influence why the post itself makes it to the front page with just 10 points?
- speedgoose 4mo agoIt’s about how quickly they get those points. It doesn’t have to be bots. Sending a post to friends with reputable human profiles, and asking for a vote kinda works of most social networks. Some social networks claim they have protection against this but I wouldn’t bet they catch everything.
- DannyPage 4mo agoNot as much competition on the weekend?
- s-macke 4mo agoOn weekends, yes. During the week, that’s also true if they arrive within a short time frame, e.g., three minutes. Almost no one looks at “New”. That is the real issue.
- robbomacrae 4mo agoI believe it's the way the HN algorithm works. In order to give new and obscure posts a shot, it will add them to peoples feeds in their front page and see how they measure. Otherwise new posts wouldn't get seen and the flywheel would never get started. So everyone acts as a sort of beta tester for obscure posts.
- nickvec 4mo agoIf you are looking to see the "true" HN frontpage (i.e. most upvoted posts), I'd recommend using https://hckrnews.com https://hckrnews.com
- moebrowne 4mo agoIf you want a list of posts simply ordered by upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/best
- blurbleblurble 4mo agoMaybe the algorithm has some kind of "momentum" to it, taking into consideration the velocity of upvotes.