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Ask HN: Difference between anonymous and logged in submission list?

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I pointed out to a co-worker that none of my submissions on HN ever gotten any more than 5 points, when he asked me about the link I posted today, which didn't show. It was then I noticed that when logged in, it says 20 submissions, but logged out, it shows 17, and when I view one of the ones based on the ID, that it will just show a blank where logged in, it will show the details?

Just wondering; thanks :)

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No specific knowledge of how this works at HN, but I'm betting you're seeing caching behavior at work. Everybody logged in has potentially quite different HTML to serve up -- everybody logged out needs the same. The latter outnumber the former and, rather than applying a deceptively expensive sort-by-score on every pageview, it makes more sense to generate once and cache for "a long time relative to an HTTP request/response cycle."

It would help if you provided specific examples.

However, one possibility is this:

Some sites are DOA - designated as overwhelmingly bad in general. Some articles on those sites may be worthwhile, but on balance, anything decent that appears on those sites will appear somewhere else, so it's not worth allowing them.

Perhaps you found a rare decent article on one of the sites effectively blacklisted.

Again, specific examples would help diagnose what you're seeing.

Here are three of them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9286412 (Link to my own site for a small project I completed => http://www.nickkusters.com/en/Services/DownloadFundaImages )

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8196486 (when jQuery site went down for 12+ hours => http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/jquery.com.html )

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9915990 (link to Zombo.com; something I missed 8+ years ago, was recently referenced in a project, and thought people would be able to laugh at => http://www.zombo.com/ )

I've just tried submitting those, and all three were DOA.

If you want to know more about these specific sites and why they might be on the DOA list, you need to follow the guidelines:

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    something (e.g. to ask us questions about
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    to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

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