Re:Time Is Contagious
by throwaway284534 on Monday July 17, 2017 @09:44PM
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I can sympathize. This article has been on the front page for hours and only has 50 points. Doesn't anyone else find this suspicious?
Every single time a Nautilus article is submitted it seems to hang around for hours. Can @dang weigh in here?
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I think Nautilus articles do well, but never well enough to induce the activity penalty that the really popular stuff on HN gets hit with. They also tend to generate a number of comments over time, but not so many that they trigger the excessive discussion parameters that kick things off the front page. I would also assume that they basically never get flagged as the articles are generally not controversial.
Doesn't anyone else find this suspicious?
No. 50 points is more than enough to keep something on the front page for a day. It happens with lots of links. Nautilus (and The Atlantic, and a few others) are more visible on HN because they publish the sort of content HN readers submit every month without hiding it behind a paywall.