As a long time HN member since 2012 or so, I will say...
HN has become a lot harder to get a story to the front page or even upvoted, based on merit. I used to be able to get stories to the front page repeatedly early on. Then it became that you had to ask a few friends to help upvote it to give it a kickstart. Now it never gets to even 10 votes no matter how good it is, while the exact same story may hit the front page.
Meanwhile there are tons of people that have voting rings or paying for upvoting services.
Something needs to change, the same way Reddit’s ranking algorithm was changed based on Randall Munroe’s public suggestion.
I want to ask the HN submitters here: in the last 1-2 years, what percentage of your contributions have been upvoted to the front page organically and why?
Or maybe ask the other way... of those that have, what was it? Because it’s certainly not the actual link or title, since ones submitted later with nearly exact same ones were upvoted much more heavily.
HN has become a lot harder to get a story to the front page or even upvoted, based on merit. I used to be able to get stories to the front page repeatedly early on. Then it became that you had to ask a few friends to help upvote it to give it a kickstart. Now it never gets to even 10 votes no matter how good it is, while the exact same story may hit the front page.
Meanwhile there are tons of people that have voting rings or paying for upvoting services.
Something needs to change, the same way Reddit’s ranking algorithm was changed based on Randall Munroe’s public suggestion.
I want to ask the HN submitters here: in the last 1-2 years, what percentage of your contributions have been upvoted to the front page organically and why?
Or maybe ask the other way... of those that have, what was it? Because it’s certainly not the actual link or title, since ones submitted later with nearly exact same ones were upvoted much more heavily.