Ask HN: Do posts by authors with more karma rank higher?

Fwiw, I saw this post on the front page, with no comments and you don't particularly have THAT much karma. Whatever that means.

Not 100% sure, but: - Karma is indeed a good indicator. - Having a 'non'-anonymous HN profile also seems to make your posts more credible.

Otherwise, good luck!

There's no documented karma input to ranking and I doubt any exists. Stories I submit are picked up as randomly as anyone else's.

The same isn't true of stories I write; I have a pretty good track record of getting blog posts on the front page. But HN doesn't know when something I've submitted is something I've written; what gets stories from high-karma users ranked is mostly just name recognition.

I doubt people are looking at the submitter name when choosing to upvote stories; I do think some subset of them look at the domain name of the story site though.

I suspect even if it's not done deliberately it happens as a self-fulfilling prophecy. The people that have high amounts of karma tend to post better articles so people are more likely to look at them or follow the person.

The latter would create a bubble of some people’s submissions flooding the site over time and not allowing others’ submissions to come to the front page.

The ranking is affected to a good extent by when a post is submitted because of the times (and time zones) when more HN voters are online and active.