alt Hacker NewsIt doesn't look like shit content, but:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310650
posted an hour ago with 4 measly upvotes among other threads with hundreds of upvotes on spot 10?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311092
4 upvotes in 26 comments, also on spot 10 after refresh?
Still zero comments for both! If all you need to end up in the top 10 is 4 upvotes within 30 minutes I could start selling hacker news front page placements right here, right now.
Is the value of an upvote karma based? Is the ranking view based? Are view by high karma accounts worth more? In any case, those two posts are pretty sketchy. No one cares enough to comment on them and they are still on the frontpage.
It’s always amusing to see a topic that’s so esoteric no one can toss off low effort drive by comment on it. Let alone have insightful input on the subject.
I’d believe it’s the mods juicing it by hand, but perhaps there’s an algorithm filtering for subject distance from the core hn oeuvre?