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Certainly true, but there can be a gap between providing such tips and having them be accepted/upvoted. There is probably something to be said for exploring opt
by bdevine 13y ago
Certainly true, but there can be a gap between providing such tips and having them be accepted/upvoted. There is probably something to be said for exploring optimizing strategies, along the lines of frequenting the site at certain times, ignoring requests from brand-new accounts that aren't likely to follow through on accepting answers, and so on. Having said that, I am not sure that there is enough to be said about those strategies to be worth the time of maintaining a repo, although I always admire people who are pushing the bounds of what Git can be used for.
- lutusp 13y ago> Certainly true, but there can be a gap between providing such tips and having them be accepted/upvoted. Reality tip: accepted != upvoted. This is going to get a bit deeper than HN readers normally care about, but ask yourself what your reason is for posting -- to get upvotes, or to be helpful to other people? Another way to look at this is that votes can be tallied and turned into a statistic, but being helpful is pretty much intangible. And the relationship between votes and helpfulness isn't strongly correlated. In short, helpfulfulness isn't quantifiable. So it all comes down to why you post. One more thing. Having posted in this and other fora for more than twenty years, I can report that some people only vote, and others only read for content and never vote, and the two groups are only loosely associated. I've noticed that some posts get wildly upvoted or downvoted but without many comments, other get lots of comments with few votes. This means that if your goal is to get votes, you would write in an entirely different way than if you wanted to create a productive conversation.