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Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by dalmo3 »

lordnacho wrote: post #4
weinzierl wrote: post #3

Many good points. I'd like to add a common open secret that I believe is wrong: 1 upvote = 1 karma point. This might be true internally and initially, before any ant-spam, anti-upvote-ring detection takes place. Effectively, from a user point of view it is not - at least for me. When I look at the points one of my submissions get and compare my increase in overall karma it is very roughly 50% most of the time. Needle…

Do you mean on stories? I've noticed upvotes on stories don't give you 1 karma each, it's less. Not sure if it's a linear 0.5. But upvotes on comments seem to be 1 each.

What are stories?

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by mkl »

capableweb wrote: post #6

A collaborative resource with more information about undocumented/norms on HN: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented > Personally, I’d stay at 3. I’d also wait at least a day between re-posts (and try re-posting at different time slots). Wow, that's not how I parsed the very same reposting rules. If I'm about to submit something and I found an older submission with the same URL, my personal rule is th…

> > Hacker News is moderated mainly by dang aka Dan Gackle (pronounced ‘Gackley’). He’s not of asian descent

> ??? Is it common that people think he is Asian for some reason? What a strange paragraph to include...

"Dang" is a surname in Vietnam, China, and elsewhere [1], which has led to subthreads like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643150 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25053380 in which, yes, people thought he was Asian.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_(surname)

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by [deleted] »

capableweb wrote: post #6

A collaborative resource with more information about undocumented/norms on HN: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented > Personally, I’d stay at 3. I’d also wait at least a day between re-posts (and try re-posting at different time slots). Wow, that's not how I parsed the very same reposting rules. If I'm about to submit something and I found an older submission with the same URL, my personal rule is th…

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Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by PostThisTooFast »

Lame. There's nothing here about Hacker News's disrespect for users, and their disgraceful "You're posting too fast" bullshit.

They let people waste their time composing questions or answers, and THEN tell them they can't post when they press the "add comment" button. And we're talking two or three posts in a matter of HOURS being flagged as "too fast."

ASSHOLES.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

lordnacho wrote: post #4
weinzierl wrote: post #3

Many good points. I'd like to add a common open secret that I believe is wrong: 1 upvote = 1 karma point. This might be true internally and initially, before any ant-spam, anti-upvote-ring detection takes place. Effectively, from a user point of view it is not - at least for me. When I look at the points one of my submissions get and compare my increase in overall karma it is very roughly 50% most of the time. Needle…

Do you mean on stories? I've noticed upvotes on stories don't give you 1 karma each, it's less. Not sure if it's a linear 0.5. But upvotes on comments seem to be 1 each.

my observation is that when you are starting out your stories generate more than .5 per comment, not sure if it is 1 per comment, but at a certain point you get capped to .5 per comment on story. Have not noticed any capping on favorites for comments though.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by [deleted] »

pansa2 wrote: post #9

> A story needs to accumulate 5 points to appear in the Live List. I don’t think this is right. During quiet times, I’ve definitely seen stories in the “live list”, and even on the front page, with only 3 points.

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Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by mkl »

dalmo3 wrote: post #11
lordnacho wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean on stories? I've noticed upvotes on stories don't give you 1 karma each, it's less. Not sure if it's a linear 0.5. But upvotes on comments seem to be 1 each.

What are stories?

Submissions, which are often news stories or other stories.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by bborud »

vadfa wrote: post #2

>readers reacted negatively, even violently, to seeing [...] stories that were placed there randomly >HN users have an intense emotional relationship with the front page If a "greatest 80s hits" radio station started broadcasting music from the 00s and people got pissed off you wouldn't say "listeners of this station have an intense emotional relationship with it". When they tune in to the "greatest 80s hits" station…

So as long as something doesn't challenge our beliefs, values, opinions or prejudices it's OK.
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