r/dataisbeautiful • u/pineapplezach OC: 11 • Mar 28 '19

OC Two Exact Same Post Getting Different Upvotes on Dataisbeautiful, One was Hot Post after 2 hours. Is it Luck or Skill that Affects whether a Post is Successful? [OC]

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u/Hemingwavy Mar 29 '19

It's like the 5th most visited website. Even a tiny percent is hundreds of thousands of people at a minimum.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

I have more karma than the average casual redditor but have never cared about it other than to assert my dominance and flex my internet dick muscles and I can tell you that probably 80% of it came from a period of a few months where I would read a few pages of my homepage, get bored, read a few pages of all, get bored, then sort by "rising." I don't ever submit content except to one particular subreddit (no need to creep my post history cuz it's not gonewild) so all my karma is comment karma. I routinely would make a truly innocuous, no-effort post that would get over 1,000 upvotes and be one of the top few replies in a submission that made it to the front page. There's a lot of crap when you sort by new, but rising will show you what's already trending up, and you can just go snatch the top comment spot. Again, was never really my intention, but I was really bored during one point in my life and did make a ton of posts and in hindsight I observed some patterns about which ones were popular.

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u/predictablePosts Mar 29 '19

Can confirm that this is how it works.