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No stripe.com URL boost = you'll have to work the hard way.
by pieton 12y ago
No stripe.com URL boost = you'll have to work the hard way.
- dang 12y agoWhoa. There is absolutely no stripe.com URL boost, or any other kind of URL boost. The stellar.org post set off HN's voting ring detector. Edit: I (perhaps mistakenly) assumed the parent meant that HN itself was boosting certain URLs, as opposed to, say, name-recognition by users. The latter kind of thing is no doubt a factor.
- droopyEyelids 12y agoDo many Strip posts die from the voting ring detector?
- dang 12y agoMany Stripe posts have set off the voting ring detector in the past. This one didn't. The ring detector doesn't kill posts, it just demotes them.
- napoleond 12y ago> There is absolutely no stripe.com URL boost Parent may have just meant an organic boost--I certainly notice submissions from certain domains above others, and from the looks of things it appears that others do, too. Not necessarily a bad thing at all, but it does seem to be an observable effect. > The stellar.org post set off HN's voting ring detector. My understanding of the detector is that (among other things, presumably) it applies a penalty when visitors follow a link directly to the submission from a page other than "new", "news", etc. Is it possible that there is a bug (at least, I think it would be a bug) by which it also penalizes submissions where the visitor has followed a link from elsewhere on HN (eg. parent's link)? I followed the link and upvoted the story, and I assume several others used that path as well.
- dang 12y ago> Parent may have just meant an organic boost Good point. I may have gotten over-sensitive! Will edit accordingly.
- pieton 12y agoSorry -- didn't mean to suggest that. Just a little in-joking about the inevitable popularity of Stripe articles here.. (and thank antiprocrast for my throwaway..)
- dang 12y agoOh good. You can always email us for a noprocrast indulgence. :)