Open secrets about Hacker News

Post by simsla » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 1:09 PM 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…

Post by devilduck » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 1:15 PM UTC

Post by ModernMech » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 1:29 PM UTC

causi wrote: post #115

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…

Interesting how that page doesn't cover shadow muting. If too many of your comments hit -4 in too short a time period you'll get nothing but "you're posting too fast" messages for several hours, possibly a day.

Post by gwbas1c » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 1:32 PM UTC

Post by DonHopkins » Thu, Oct 28, 2021, 1:55 PM UTC

dougmwne wrote: post #91

> he is the best moderator in the world Yes he is. Dang, you are amazing. Thank you for tending this beautiful garden in the middle of a sad and boggy Internet.