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10 hours, 89 points and 0 comments? That's a first.
by trungaczne 10y ago
10 hours, 89 points and 0 comments? That's a first.
- harryf 10y agoIt's a statistical anomaly
- Noseshine 10y agoThe thing about statistics is that while you have a statistical explanation on the population level you still have an individual explanation on the level of individuals.
- dang 10y agoI'm a sucker for Cunningham's Law, but aren't we all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11122973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11122973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12134303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12134303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11548951 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11017603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11017603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473851 That's in the last year. Looks like there are 31 stories total with no (live) comments and > 89 points. But then there are all the ones where people posted about there being lots of points and no comments...
- lma21 10y ago/off-topic and probably a useless question how did you retrieve those links? you had them bookmarked :-) ?
- dang 10y agoI wrote a bit of code to find them.
- trungaczne 10y agoI meant "That's a first" as in it was a first for me. I've seen threads almost empty where the only comments are discussion why they are so empty, but that's usually within 5-6 hours of the thread creation. I've never personally seen a completely empty thread. This seems like an extreme anomaly personally, at least until you revealed the statistics. Curious, how many threads were created last year?
- dang 10y ago360k threads and 1.89M comments.
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