Re:I use a hair dryer to make roast chicken (2018)
by swores on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:45AM
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From the HN guidelines:
"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
And in this thread specifically, you're complaining about (so far) 11 people who found this interesting enough to upvote. Maybe for its content, or maybe hoping the content/title would spur interesting conversation about cooking techniques. Or maybe half of them were mis-clicks. Regardless, it's only "up in the top" of HN because the site cleverly has a few front-page slots for rotating stories that are relatively new and have a handful of upvotes, to see if a brief front-page exposure is enough to get traction, or if it stays a low number of upvotes it's very quicky back to it's rightful place in the queue. (Disclaimer, that's my memory of how it's been described, may not be exactly accurate.)
"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And in this thread specifically, you're complaining about (so far) 11 people who found this interesting enough to upvote. Maybe for its content, or maybe hoping the content/title would spur interesting conversation about cooking techniques. Or maybe half of them were mis-clicks. Regardless, it's only "up in the top" of HN because the site cleverly has a few front-page slots for rotating stories that are relatively new and have a handful of upvotes, to see if a brief front-page exposure is enough to get traction, or if it stays a low number of upvotes it's very quicky back to it's rightful place in the queue. (Disclaimer, that's my memory of how it's been described, may not be exactly accurate.)