Comment on Ask PG: Would it be possible to do an A/B test on HN?parentComments−req217yI don't think either of those are terribly good metrics.Using two of my own submissions...Compare Google's blog post on robots crawling news articles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=708417 to an inflammatory post about Techcrunch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658308One of those is 'quality', and the other has comments (and 'dead' status).
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I don't think either of those are terribly good metrics.
Using two of my own submissions...
Compare Google's blog post on robots crawling news articles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=708417 to an inflammatory post about Techcrunch: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658308
One of those is 'quality', and the other has comments (and 'dead' status).