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Re:Maily: Your Kids' First Email by pooriaazimi on Monday October 01, 2012 @09:14AM (#4596768)
I submitted a few "interesting" questions from StackOverflow last year (by interesting I mean they had interesting subjects, but weren't link-baity; my poor memory has forgotten what they were though!). IIRC, both of them got about 200-250 votes (on HN) and about 20-30 thousand visits. How do I know? I submitted using the share link StackOverflow gives you (it's something like stackoverflow.com/question/1000/2000, which means that user 2000 (me) has linked to question 1000), and about the time they reached 100-120 votes, SO awarded me a badge along the lines of "you shared a link that 10,000 unique IPs have visited".

So, based on my very limited experience: unique visits are about 100 times the number of votes on HN.

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