Who Was Kafka? - Hackdot

Re:Who Was Kafka? by l33tbro on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:48AM (#11097618)

Apologies in advance for an off-topic meta comment, but I'm curious. I read this 8 hours ago when you posted it and saw it had a couple of upvotes. So how come 8 hours later and with only 6 upvotes this is towards the top of HN? Also strange, it says the article was posted an hour ago, which prompted me to check through your user submissions where it says that it was indeed posted 9 hours ago.

As mentioned, just curious how the upvoting works here. Would be great if someone could help explain.

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Re:Who Was Kafka? by dang on Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:04AM (#11097646)

We put it in the second-chance pool, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there. It's an experiment in giving good stories that fell through the cracks another chance at getting attention on the front page.

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Re:Who Was Kafka? by gexos on Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:02AM (#11097642)

I think it has to do with the user's karma, a post from a user with heavy karma ranks higher, if you noticed there is another post ranked 8th from a user with 20000+ karma and only 5 votes.

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Re:Who Was Kafka? by dang on Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:05AM (#11097648)

Karma doesn't affect story ranking.

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Re:Who Was Kafka? by gexos on Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:33AM (#11097689)

My apologies, I thought post ranking has to do with karma.

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Re:Who Was Kafka? by l33tbro on Sunday February 14, 2016 @04:05AM (#11097647)

Thanks. Yeah that checks out.

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