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Comment by vaksel | Hacker News Reader

easy...just submit a post without having a bunch of your friends upvote it....guaranteed to be dead on arrival

I know that reddit isn't exactly the most popular thing on HN, but in the past I have gotten a few articles on the frontpage without asking anyone to vote on them. This was a while ago (maybe a year now), but I think reddit's submission process has a while to go before it reaches something like Digg.

If you wait until you're number one on HN and then add a reddit flair to the bottom of the post then it's pretty easy to get enough reddit upvotes to make the front page without asking any of your friends to vote for you. If this doesn't work then just submit to one of the default subreddits, and you'll still make the front page. The only problem is that it'll take a few hours for this to happen so you can't really get above #15 or so, but that's still good for a couple thousand page views.

> but that's still good for a couple thousand page views.

Reddit has become that big? No wonder nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

subreddits are excellent.

Some of the subreddits are very reasonable, actually! I have had good luck submitting articles to Proggit without external support. When my submissions slip through the cracks, I can usually find fault with my approach: either the timing or the title was awful.

There ARE bots that seemingly downmod everything in the 'New' queue, but Reddit's system is designed to keep nascent articles alive longer, so they don't have much overall effect.

I've submitted maybe 20 things to reddit, and two made it to the front page and sat there for a while on their own.

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