Weird. How did this spammy self-help blah-blah make it to the front-page? Must be a slow news day or simply vanity: "Hey, I am smart, I want to see what truths I forget! Vote up, cause we're all smart here."
I am starting to think that certain people upvote things to read later if they are blocked by their corporate firewall (like this site for me). As HN gets more popular, I think the trend is for these votes to get more frequent while the old-timers still don't upvote much at all.
I have been thinking of this for a while, and this might seem like a good enough of an example. Anyone else have any thoughts?
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Weird. How did this spammy self-help blah-blah make it to the front-page? Must be a slow news day or simply vanity: "Hey, I am smart, I want to see what truths I forget! Vote up, cause we're all smart here."
I'd normally agree, but many of the points resonate well with entrepreneurs and the psychological issues therein.
I am starting to think that certain people upvote things to read later if they are blocked by their corporate firewall (like this site for me). As HN gets more popular, I think the trend is for these votes to get more frequent while the old-timers still don't upvote much at all.
I have been thinking of this for a while, and this might seem like a good enough of an example. Anyone else have any thoughts?
Just counting old-timer votes doesn't seem to change the ranking much: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513