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Most of the people I know who peruse HN regularly are not registered users. They are happy to let others do the commenting (which they read).
http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18839832580/reddi...
It was super-surprising to see my own blog getting an average of 55pts on HN; I hadn't wondered about that before.
My takeaway --- from the fact that Matt Might's domain is second only to pg's --- is that you should write up easy to understand lecture notes on deep PL-related topics.
The fact that this story went straight to the top suggests that a meta-post about HN is the way to go.
But otherwise, I'm not sure it really pays off.
I had no idea what you did and didn't really care until you used it in context of something I did care about: Hacker News. Now I know what you do, understand how it applies to me, and best of all, I'm starting to visualize how else I could use it.
We should all approach our prospects like you just did here. Nice job!
you say the two possible reasons you are not making the front page are: your content is weak, or people's taste's have changed. The fact that the number of submissions has not changed suggest to me a third and more plausible option: The quality of submissions, and therefore the competition for the "front page" has increased.
you say the two possible reasons you are not making the front page are: your content is weak, or people's taste's have changed. The fact that the number of submissions has not changed suggest to me a third and more plausible option: The quality of submissions, and therefore the competition for the "front page" has increased.
Doesn't "My content is weak" contain the implicit qualifier "compared to the average within the domain we're discussing"?
This leads me to speculate that there may be an optimal submission time or times throughout the day. I'd like to see analytics that look at the variation in the average number of comments/upvotes for submissions (or some other metric) to see if this theory holds any weight.