Re:Data Mining Hacker News: Front vs. Back
by gus_massa on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:12AM
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> (and what ends up making the front page hours after being submitted for no reason).
Some post are "resubmitted" by the mods using some kind of manual curation. They appear a few hours later. I sometimes notice this with a comment in an obscure submission with 2 or 3 points that falls from the newest page, but a few hours later the submission gets to the front page and then the comment can get a few upvotes.
Some post are "resubmitted" by the mods using some kind of manual curation. They appear a few hours later. I sometimes notice this with a comment in an obscure submission with 2 or 3 points that falls from the newest page, but a few hours later the submission gets to the front page and then the comment can get a few upvotes.
I think the most clear description of this by dang is in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926