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176 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr 21 Jul 2022 \ on: Daily discussion thread
check out the front page of hacker news 👀
Wow!!!
Ratio'd (for the count of comments) the post with the direct link to the DoJ press release even. 255 comments for the SN link, versus 80 for the DoJ link.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32180428 (DoJ link)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32180555 (SN link)
Of course, not everyone on HN is happy with that.
What is happening here? This link is to stacker.news, a HN-like website. It's for a story that is another active top story already on HN. Are folks just commenting on the headline without even clicking the link?
Which, I would agree. For example, nobody wants to see a post here on SN that is just a link to a post on HN, which itself is a link to an underlying article somewhere else.
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Yeah, even if it did drive a ton of traffic, it's not really fair to HN to get links to links. Especially when we have less discussion around it than they do.
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