Open secrets about Hacker News • Hacker News Board

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by rimliu » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:13 AM UTC

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…

Either I missed it or it does not mention "posting too fast" feature, which is very annoying, because if you commented on something you can be restricted from commenting on another, unrelated topic.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by lordnacho » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:14 AM UTC

detritus wrote: post #14

> He’s not of asian descent. What?

I thought he was a Chinese guy until I read an article about him. I'm sure a lot of people thought similarly, that it was one syllable "dang!" rather than Dan-G.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by etskinner » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:16 AM UTC

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.

Was it on the bottom half of the front page? If so, it might fall under the moderator-curated group that the author mentions. Or, if it was lower, it might have been there earlier.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by cheeaun » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

Actually, I would be interested to know how the comments are sorted.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by WithinReason » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

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…

Something not mentioned in either article is how karma is handled on submissions. 1 comment upvote = 1 karma point, but 1 submission upvote isn't. E.g. this [0] post got 286 points but the submitter only has 118 karma. Also, what's the deal with the "prev" and "next" buttons that just appeared in the last few minutes?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28996500

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by HNSucksAss » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

LAME. There's nothing here about Hacker News's disrespect for users, expressed in its disgraceful "you're posting too fast" bullshit.

They let you waste your time composing a question or answer, and THEN tell you that you can't post AFTER you press the button to submit it.

NO EXCUSE, ASSHOLES.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by Bayart » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:18 AM UTC

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…

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

Call me a fool, but it's never occurred to me that he wasn't. I've always pictured him as a Chinese gentleman, a sort of Confucian scholar in 0s and 1s holding up the mortal world to ancient standards of virtue.

I might come across as reading far too much xianxia, and that would be accurate.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by HNSucksAss » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:19 AM UTC

cheeaun wrote: post #24

Actually, I would be interested to know how the comments are sorted.

You might be interested to know that sometimes they show YOU that your comment is posted, but it isn't. No one else can see it.

So you're really just farting into the wind, because Hacker News thinks your time is free. Assholes.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by have_faith » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

bborud wrote: post #19

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.

Playing 00's music on an 80's radio station isn't challenging someone's fondness of 80's music, it's just annoying.

Re: Open secrets about Hacker News

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Post by lordnacho » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #20

Impressive how this has managed to get to #1 right in the middle of the temporal 'dead zone.'

It's quite possible meta stories are the most upvoted category of all. I posted an article about how HN was moderated and it netted more karma than anything else I've ever done on this site, by a wide margin.