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He is doing an experiment where he regularly posts one of his good articles together with two foreign articles he liked. See his submission history and comment

• gwern 13y ago
  > with two foreign articles he liked. And if I may say so, I'm a little disappointed in the performance of those submission - I thought many of them were better than my own article, but I think maybe 2 or 3 at this point have reached the main page.
  • trendroid 13y ago
    Yup, many were better. But the thing is that they are long and you are not the author. Your essays are long too but since you are authoring them, they become popular. I think many just upvote you without reading your whole article.
    • gwern 13y ago
      That would explain the patterns, yes. (I'm also annoyed at how HN keeps editing the submission titles. Seriously, who keeps wasting their time doing that?!)