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I'm from the school where I read the article before deciding to upvote. Unfortunately, if the article is interesting, I read it all the way through and forget
by byoung2 14y ago
I'm from the school where I read the article before deciding to upvote. Unfortunately, if the article is interesting, I read it all the way through and forget to come back and upvote it. In this case the subject of the article reminded me to upvote, but I think it would be a good idea to put the reminder at the end of the article as well.
- ante_annum 14y agoI'm in the same boat as him where I'll submit everything I write, watch 400 people read it on google analytics, and never get a comment of an upvote. It's sort of frustrating because I'm submitting my writing specifically to get feedback, but I also realize that if something is truly interesting to me, I'm more likely to hop straight to twitter to share it.
- username3 14y agoTry adding a link to comments on Hacker News on the bottom of the article.
- nkuttler 14y agoSeriously, you submit everything your write here? What is your goal? I want, you know, news relevant for hackers on this site. Not everything that was published on the internets in the last 24 hours. If I were you I'd try to find more relevant sites, or maybe some subreddit.
- pessimizer 14y agoYou didn't look at the submissions before complaining about them, right? http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ante_annum http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ante_annum They all seem perfectly appropriate to me.
- jeremyarussell 14y agoIt could also be that he only writes stuff he views is a fit for hacker news.
- incision 14y ago>It's sort of frustrating because I'm submitting my writing specifically to get feedback... Personally, I'm hesitant to give feedback or even comment unless I think I have something unique to offer or have an unusually strong feeling about the material. I think a large part of it is the generally combative stance many people seem to default into online. I quickly got tired of "So, what have you done better?" responses to what I think is polite, constructive criticism or a "What does this add to the discussion?" quip as a result of posting a simple show of appreciation. I'm theorizing it's an overcompensation from the transformation of certain aggregators into something like a backpatting / validation request line.
- ry0ohki 14y agoIt's also always amazing to me how few people upvote an article. Like something on the front page getting tens of thousands of votes, that people clearly like, and usually only a few hundred can be bothered to click a little arrow.
- lobotryas 14y agoI rarely upvote because doing so on HN automatically adds that article to your Saved section. I prefer to keep this section only for submissions to which I'd want to come back later (and I'm unsure if the "upvote to save" behavior can be changed). Either way, view this as a great lesson in why getting conversions can be so tough. A person better have a very persuasive case for a stranger to go out of their way and click a button.
- brudgers 14y agoThe saved section makes me more selective in terms of what merits an upvote. I will confess/admit/proclaim that the position of an article within the stack also influences my upvoting. In other words, my standard for upvoting is lower on the New page than the front page.
- rweba 14y agoI'm in the same boat : Just because I like an article doesn't mean I want it saved to my permanent list. I would be very interested if there is a way to change this behavior as I would then upvote far more articles.
- ry0ohki 14y agoI had no idea this section even existed, and I've been on here for years, literally never clicked that link!
- xijuan 14y agoI don't know about others. But I upvote a lot!! And I almost always remember to come back to upvote after reading the article.
- illuminate 14y ago