I don’t really understand how the HN rating system works. I submitted this article 1 day ago, and it got completely ignored. Now I open the front page and see it there. If anyone can tell me how did this happened, I would really much appreciate it.
Sometimes I get emails when my submissions qualify for the second-chance pool. Other times it just pops up. It is confusing how the time-stamp for the submission (which I think gets reset) and the comments (which at least sometimes do not) end up looking.
I hope you don’t get an answer. I’d rather people not know how to game the algorithm.