Re:HN Leaders — What are the most upvoted users of Hacker Ne...
by denton-scratch on Monday August 08, 2022 @11:10AM
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> not rocking the boat and saying anything that goes against the echo chamber
I think there may be something in that.
My most-upvoted comments have been (a) comments to the root article, not sub-comments; and (b) generally rather short and 'flip'. Apart from that, I can't find any pattern in which comments get upvoted and which don't.
I don't (I hope) post echo-chamber comments; if everyone already agrees with me, there's no point in posting.
I post what I think are insightful comments, that stick on 1 forever; and comments that I know are controversial, that scoop 20 upvotes in 10 minutes. I also occasionally post vacuous, "witty" one-liners that, to my surprise, garner lots of upvotes.
I don't post for karma; I post for sub-comments, i.e. I want to discuss stuff. I don't like long comment threads on HN though; so I never post more than one or two replies to my own thread.
I think there may be something in that.
My most-upvoted comments have been (a) comments to the root article, not sub-comments; and (b) generally rather short and 'flip'. Apart from that, I can't find any pattern in which comments get upvoted and which don't.
I don't (I hope) post echo-chamber comments; if everyone already agrees with me, there's no point in posting.
I post what I think are insightful comments, that stick on 1 forever; and comments that I know are controversial, that scoop 20 upvotes in 10 minutes. I also occasionally post vacuous, "witty" one-liners that, to my surprise, garner lots of upvotes.
I don't post for karma; I post for sub-comments, i.e. I want to discuss stuff. I don't like long comment threads on HN though; so I never post more than one or two replies to my own thread.