Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone

Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by imp on Thursday May 14, 2009 @09:15AM (#608676)

Pretty basic stuff. None of it newsworthy. I notice that right now it's #8, but in the classic view it's not even on the home page. This might be one indication of lower quality on the site.

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Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by physcab on Thursday May 14, 2009 @10:47AM (#608813)

Sorry, but you need to remember that some hackers (eg me) are pretty new to this stuff. I found it helpful to have all this information in one place. For me, the ranking is justified.

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Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by codeodor on Thursday May 14, 2009 @09:59AM (#608733)

38 minutes later they are showing it at 3 (on /classic) and 4 on the home page.

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Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by aaronsw on Thursday May 14, 2009 @11:15AM (#608874)

This is precisely the problem with /classic -- even old (classic?) users use the main home page, so they're going to vote up stuff they see there. The front page is so path-dependent that taking out certain votes after-the-fact is never going to make big changes.

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Re:Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone by gojomo on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:33PM (#609211)

Maybe 'classic' users should be shown the classic leaderboard by default?

Alternatively, maybe classic users have the same preferences, but check the site less frequently... so they follow the newer population but at a lag.

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