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Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #40
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Submissions need to be a bit more organic. :) I like that it disappeared from the front page, or never showed up, because it means HN's voting ring detector is working very well. Kind of amusing. I'm sure it'll pop up sometime, though.

And here I thought some of my content would see the front page. How disappointing. :(

Nah, feel happy. People are agreeing that your content is good. That one got pulled because the automatic vote detector detected that a bunch of seemingly-artificial votes (ours) were being sent to it. As such, it certainly doesn't count as a resubmission. So really, nothing has changed.

Either way, thanks for contributing. I'm a gamedev too, so clicking on your submissions list instantly made me feel nostalgic. Tom Forsyth is a name I hadn't seen in awhile.

Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by sdegutis »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #40
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Submissions need to be a bit more organic. :) I like that it disappeared from the front page, or never showed up, because it means HN's voting ring detector is working very well. Kind of amusing. I'm sure it'll pop up sometime, though.

And here I thought some of my content would see the front page. How disappointing. :(

My solution has been:

(1) stop posting stuff anywhere

(2) stop going on the internet except for doing my job

It's raised my productivity and contentment a lot.

(Well, sometimes I break rule #1 to make comments like this. But that's about it.)

Only thing left to solve is http://i.imgur.com/95NZpPy.png and then I'll really be living the life.

Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by [deleted] »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #15

HN 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.

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Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by dang »

jsnell wrote: post #26
jakegarelick wrote: post #21

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.

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

Yes. For more info, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there.

Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by forrestthewoods »

lisivka wrote: post #38
forrestthewoods wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't. But because the types on content are so similar we can compare results to look for systemic faults.

Faults?

I suspect that HN is significantly less deterministic than other sites as to what content escapes New. I believe that a good content aggregator (HN, Reddit, Digg, etc) should be able to promote a given piece of quality content with a high degree of reliability. Some sites are better at this then others. My impression is that HN is less good. I would consider that a fault.

Obviously I don't have any hard evidence to anything I just said. Which is why I used words such as suspect, believe, and impression.

There is always going to be some variability. All content kneels before RNGesus. But some really good content never gets past two upvotes. Two! That could be a lot better. In my opinion.

Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by detaro »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #22
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #16

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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.

from the FAQ (linked in the footer):

Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. [...]

At times, each page of /new is only a very short amount of time, so it's easy for stuff to fly through and get lost.

Especially if nobody is looking at /new and voting. (seriously, everybody. You want to see more technical content? Vote for it as early as possible)

Stuff that's on mainstream sites is submitted by tons of people, even if it is already on spot 1 on the front page, individual blogs don't get that many chances sadly, and drowned out. (I feel weird reposting something the author submitted him-/herself the day before, but maybe we should do that more)

Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by jsnell »

dang wrote: post #44
jsnell wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes. For more info, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there.

Thanks, that's a better source than any I'd seen before. Have you thought about mentioning this in the FAQ? It seems to come up pretty often, and can be kind of confusing due to the timestamp manipulation.

Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by dang »

jsnell wrote: post #48
dang wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. For more info, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there.

Thanks, that's a better source than any I'd seen before. Have you thought about mentioning this in the FAQ? It seems to come up pretty often, and can be kind of confusing due to the timestamp manipulation.

We will eventually, but the experiments haven't stabilized yet. There are still one or two major ideas we have yet to try.

Re: When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

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Post by ant6n »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #25
forrestthewoods wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 engineerin…

Can you make an rss feed that shows the content, or at least more of it, in the actual rss, rather than just linking back to medium?
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