I find the idea of removing the incentive to find the best time to post interesting.
That's, more or less, what the second chance pool attempts to do. As do subcategories like https://news.ycombinator.com/show which effectively extend the 'visible time in queue' for Show HN posts.
I think the underexamined assumption in a lot of these analyses is that it's hard to get a post on the HN front page. But in reality, it's relatively straightforward with a whole pile of backup mechanisms. The mystique of 'magical posting hour' draws people in but it's a lot simpler to just produce a post that matches HN's (fairly broad and loose) interestingness criteria.
It's linked at the top of the Show HN page. You can also email the mods for help with a submission you think is a good HN submission but didn't get much attention.
I find the idea of removing the incentive to find the best time to post interesting.
That's, more or less, what the second chance pool attempts to do. As do subcategories like https://news.ycombinator.com/show which effectively extend the 'visible time in queue' for Show HN posts.
I think the underexamined assumption in a lot of these analyses is that it's hard to get a post on the HN front page. But in reality, it's relatively straightforward with a whole pile of backup mechanisms. The mystique of 'magical posting hour' draws people in but it's a lot simpler to just produce a post that matches HN's (fairly broad and loose) interestingness criteria.
Only Show HN posts that clear the initial hurdle of getting a few upvotes.
> matches HN's (fairly broad and loose) interestingness criteria.
this wouldn't apply then? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44500481
No, there's also /shownew so it's not just that.
this wouldn't apply then?
Why not? Looks like a completely reasonable Show HN. Could probably use a better blurb i.e. 'tune for HN-interestingness' like I mentioned above.
Have you looked at this, for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638
It's linked at the top of the Show HN page. You can also email the mods for help with a submission you think is a good HN submission but didn't get much attention.
this is another interesting comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977430
but crucially, it assumes that variations in submissions and voting activity are strongly correlated, which I imagine is not necessarily the case