How to Get Upvoted on Hacker News
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Though, the article is actually pretty interesting and points people in the direction of the type of mindset that is appreciated and promoted on HackerNews - being a maker, and having a curious personality (and sharing it here).
I think the info in this article could be gamified a bit, but really, it's usually pretty obvious if someone is sharing something out of genuine interest in it. It's pretty hard to pretend to be nerding out about a more efficient algorithm or how to hack together a programmable mirror.
aka "participate in the site" (via show and ask)
I don’t think that will scale, but if a story is legitimately interesting and your email is short, you might find it’s given preference.
The full-time goal of HN is to stay interesting at every timestep. A lot of the reason people’s interesting stories don’t get upvoted is that there are so many interesting stories to talk about each day, and there are 30 slots on the front page. Interesting discussions also take time to foster, so you have to give content a little bit of time to accumulate well-written comments, which necessarily appear 30 minutes to several hours after hitting the front page.
Ultimately it’s an interesting intellectual exercise to analyze HN like this, but probably not too useful. The data hides the underlying fact that HN is fine-tuned to be interesting. Just be interesting, and eventually you’ll get a slot. It’s as easy and as hard as that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/durndj/eff...
Be genuine. find things that are interesting to you, and are willing to discuss with others.
HN is like the digital/intellectual version of walking into a fitness club and seeing the different levels of expertise and the specialty activities, with volunteer training coaches. Posts of tabloid-like prurient interest, or gratuitously illicit content usually dont do well on HN