[Xcelerate]

Haha no way. My highest rated posts have all been some vapid feel-good thing that I posted shortly after an article was submitted to HN. My detailed explanations that link to studies rarely get more than 10 points (same phenomenon occurs on Quora as well actually...)

[3131s]

I always wonder how much these factors affect a comment's score:

* Proximity to the top of the page

* Time of day posted

* Number of sibling comments and the score of those comments

On reddit, for example, it seems impossible to get noticed once there are already a few highly-upvoted replies to the comment you're replying to.

[fudged71]

I've been kicking myself that I didn't take sociology in university to study conversational dynamics on threaded internet forums. It continues to fascinate me