Re:Little Known Hacker News (2008)
by steveklabnik on Saturday January 29, 2011 @05:31PM
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One thing that's interesting to me: check out those point totals: 26 points, 30 points, 35 points. Compare that to the homepage right now: 23, 181, 74, etc.
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That happened to reddit too, three years ago I had a story sitting on the frontpage in the number one spot for more than a day.
It got me more than 200 karma. Today most of those who post have ten times that number.
Possibly a consequence of there being more people. I don't generally think to myself "this needs exactly 5 karma points", I think "I'm going to upvote this."
A more accurate comparison would be the percentage of people that read the article that upvoted it, and even that wouldn't be a perfect comparison.
Re:Little Known Hacker News (2008)
by steveklabnik on Saturday January 29, 2011 @05:55PM
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I'm sure it's a consequence of having more people. That's what's interesting: it's a visible indicator of the increased population around here.