HACKER Q&A
📣 FerkiHN

Why do my posts sometimes become popular and sometimes invisible?


I have an account that is 67 days old and has 23 karma, but recently my posts have become invisible, no one sees them and all that, although 1 day ago everything was fine and the posts flew by 34 points.

Please advise what to do (if anyone sees this post), and tell me if this has happened to you?

  👤 pvg Accepted Answer ✓
You should mail questions like this to the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com
👤 PaulHoule
I post a lot, most of the posts get a few votes

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=PaulHoule

maybe 1 in 30 hits it big. Two days ago this got 562 points

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298

I don't know if any explanation is necessary other than "this is the case". I know my statistics are not that different from the average post. If the same article is submitted 20 times you might find it sometimes gets 0 votes and sometimes gets 115. I know some strategies that could get my average vote count much higher but if I did you would see 5 posts from me on the front page at once and I don't like the optics of that.