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Comment by zug_zug | Hacker News Reader

Off topic, but I do feel like there is a significant number of things that mysteriously get to frontpage with 12-40 upvotes, zero comments, and then sit there getting no more upvotes / comments for like 20 minutes.

Personally I agree that it's both possible to detect this better and would actually drastically improve the quality of this site if that wasn't the meta and think it's something that should be openly discussed (in terms of practical suggestions).

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They don't care what gets ranked where other than their own recruitment and other submissions, for which this site exists.

I don’t think this holds up to higher order thinking. On the surface, sure that makes sense.

But then who left to look at the recruitment ads if the quality of the content, comments, and community degrades enough that everyone stops coming?

All I know is that pretty much nobody here knows enough about the whole picture to have a meaningfully informed opinion. So a lot of these opinions are going to be driven by their imagination of the whole picture.

It is so incredibly obvious when see it, yes.

Yeah, I was thinking about it, and I do think if you graphed it out it would be pretty easy to see.

But afaik this site doesn't even track that many metrics (e.g. does it even count clicks on articles?) so I think what I'm proposing is a bit antithetical to the minimalist nature.

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