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by beaumartinez 5566 days ago
How long have you been on Hacker News? Your account is only 20 days old; can you pass adequate judgment on the matter?

Simple answer: Apple is popular in Hacker News lately because they've done a lot of interesting (~ discussion-worthy) things lately, such as: change the App Store guidelines to demand 30% of subscriptions revenue, released a Mac OS X Lion developer preview, the iPad 2, renewed their Mac Book Pro lineup, Thunderbolt, controversy between Amazon and Apple regarding the name App Store...
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brudgers 5566 days ago
Throw-away accounts on HN are quite common as are lurkers and the length of membership is irrelevant to the point.

Apple gets coverage because they are simply interesting to write about. On the other hand, the recent page one love fest on HN for the last MBP announcement was grossly disproportionate to it's importance.

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jrubyer 5566 days ago
> How long have you been on Hacker News? Your account is only 20 days old; can you pass adequate judgment on the matter?

So, if a person's userid is 20 days old, then does it directly mean that the person has been using the site for only 20 days? what kind of logic is this?

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beaumartinez 5566 days ago
Hence why I asked if they can pass adequate judgment on the matter, which I've now realized sounds horribly condescending.

Even so, I think the majority of frequent HN-readers (ie, those able of passing judgment on its trends) will have set-up an account, and I think the age of this account is a good indicator of how long you've spent reading it.

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