Has anyone had their submission automatically re-posted?
My most upvoted submission was posted on a weekday night - the timestamp changed in the morning then it got several hundred upvotes.
When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
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Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#22HN is frustrating. I've had two blog posts hit #1 in r/programming recently. Neither got more than 2 points on HN. I could be wrong but I think HN is more random than Reddit. Reddit has lots of randomness of course. But my gut says that escaping New on HN is harder and less predictable.
So submit them again, if they're interesting. That's both allowed and encouraged here. Use your judgement though. It's a privilege to be able to do this. Three times over the course of a few days is probably fine. Four is probably too many.
Is it? I thought re-submission is frowned upon.
I've also gotten "slow down, you're submitting too fast" when multiple days have passed. That might have been because I'd had a few comments get a bunch of downvotes? I comment a lot but almost never submit stories.
Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great stuff, but please normalise to UTC in future. Everyone (reading this) knows their own offset from UTC and can probably makes sense of the data directly in that format. For anything else I have to go and lookup the offset between that timezone and mine.
(Disclaimer: I'm in Europe) For a website with a US centric audience, I think it makes perfect sense to use a US timezone: The graphs match up well with the sleep/wake patterns in the EST timezone. This makes interpreting the data a bit easier, i.e you can easily tell that there is a morning rush, a lunch rush, etc. (although interestingly, the HN audience doesn't seem to have well-defined break hours as there is jus…
> The graphs match up well with the sleep/wake patterns in the EST
I'd expect them to match more PST/PDT (-4h), that's where the Silicon Valley and YCombinator are.
Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#24Has anyone had their submission automatically re-posted? My most upvoted submission was posted on a weekday night - the timestamp changed in the morning then it got several hundred upvotes.
That is the second chance pool.
Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
So submit them again, if they're interesting. That's both allowed and encouraged here. Use your judgement though. It's a privilege to be able to do this. Three times over the course of a few days is probably fine. Four is probably too many.
Is it? I thought re-submission is frowned upon. I've also gotten "slow down, you're submitting too fast" when multiple days have passed. That might have been because I'd had a few comments get a bunch of downvotes? I comment a lot but almost never submit stories.
If the HN front page consisted of your content alone, I would be very happy. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=forrestthewoods
https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/reverse-engineering-sublime...
https://gamedevdaily.io/four-ways-to-create-a-mesh-for-a-sph...
https://gamedevdaily.io/advanced-behavior-tree-structures-4b...
Speaking purely for myself, I hope to see them resubmitted. The post about reverse engineering Sublime's fuzzy matching algorithm is an overlooked gem, I think.
Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#26Has anyone had their submission automatically re-posted? My most upvoted submission was posted on a weekday night - the timestamp changed in the morning then it got several hundred upvotes.
Yes, that is the moderators manually resurfacing good content that got no attention the first time. See for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8313525
Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#27Q: Where’s the safest place to hide a body?
A: Page 2 of Hacker News.
Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#28Something that I've found to be very important in determining whether a submission is successful (here on HN and on reddit) is the first comment. If something has a handful of upvotes, people will often check the comments to see if the link is worth their time or not. If the first comment is "Wow, this is amazing! Why is this not on the front page?" you have a much better chance of making it than if the first comment is "This is blogspam. Move along." Once a post gets critical mass, and there is a conversation going on, people assume that the post is worth reading, and invest more time, which creates more upvotes. Of course, this isn't the best filtering mechanism since it is effectively the wisdom of the crowds.
Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
So submit them again, if they're interesting. That's both allowed and encouraged here. Use your judgement though. It's a privilege to be able to do this. Three times over the course of a few days is probably fine. Four is probably too many.
Is it? I thought re-submission is frowned upon. I've also gotten "slow down, you're submitting too fast" when multiple days have passed. That might have been because I'd had a few comments get a bunch of downvotes? I comment a lot but almost never submit stories.
The "slow down, you're submitting too fast" thing is arbitrary and per-account. My account is specifically penalized, for example, and I have a far lower comment limit than pretty much everyone else. This was added without notification to me or appeal opportunity despite my e-mail being in my profile, and also means my comments are "demoted" below often punishingly-downvoted comments. So you'll see comments, then barely legible gray comments, then mine. I also cannot respond to deep threads because I burn my budget getting there, and then have to wait a couple days to continue a discussion. And that's just how my account is, now, even after conversing with them about it; Dan could not recall the specifics of why I was penalized but was resistant to removing it based upon a determination of my quality of character. From comments. On a forum.
My best guess is that there's a box on an account with an automatic and manual score adjustment, mine contains -100 or something, downvotes (real or synthetic) affect that timer that you see, but only 'real' downvotes trigger the somehow-still-exists-in-2016 'turn a comment gray' logic.
I'm not saying any of this to gripe, just that I doubt I'm the only one, I doubt that threshold is fully manual, and I doubt that the one for submitting links and the one for commenting are wildly divergent. A few days seems long, which is why I mention it. So perhaps you submitted something a million years ago that was quietly looked down upon and your account carries consequences; it wouldn't be the first time, since it was apparently one comment a million years ago that earned me my own status. And it matters so little nobody remembers.
Might be worth asking since they were more than willing to tell me once I asked, but it turned into a surreal "can we trust you to be a good boy if we remove it?" back-and-forth and I lost interest in attempting to satisfy Internet forum moderators with tales of personal development and growth. Good luck, if you do.
Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page
#30Has anyone had their submission automatically re-posted? My most upvoted submission was posted on a weekday night - the timestamp changed in the morning then it got several hundred upvotes.
That happened to my post on the number of Go positions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10950875
Same pattern; I posted late at night and late in the morning the submission time was reset.