Comment by PaulKeeble
4 years ago
> In other words, the story must persuade 13.3% or more of readers to up-vote. That’s a pretty high conversion rate.
This I feel is a very good thing. Up-votes to readership is a good correlation and is better than Reddit's hotness algorithm for finding good content which seems to be just up-votes over time.
The main contribution to article goodness seems only to be the choice of those that read and up-vote however and there is no system that can replace that yet.
>That’s a pretty high conversion rate
Hence the constant stream of articles confirming tropes that play to the HN demographics.
It's basically impossible to have a reliable 10+% conversion rate without targeting the lowest common denominator.