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To be fair it does seem pretty random when stuff gets taken up and when it doesn't. AFAICT sometimes content that ends up very popular is ignored the first few submissions.

Never heard the term listickle before. Thanks for introducing it :)

It's actually spelled listicle, no "k."

I wss enjoying the discussion without reading the article

Noted, I was starting to submit way too much as a part of an experiment. That experiment failed miserably (and led to a shitlist addition).

I don't submit things more than 4x now. What you see are the remnants of the experiment.

At the same time, I don't think things make it to the front-page if they're bad.

It’s the clay pot analogy in your article.

Not cool. It sets a bad precedent for the community by trying to game the (unwritten) rules. In equilibrium, HN is drowned by blogspam and people leave HN.

Broadly: I agree Alex, that was my bad.

Minutely: The fact that I couldn't game it means it isn't that vulnerable.