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RobotCaleb on Feb 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: No upvotes on Hacker News: Still awesome to submit

From my sample size of one I show about 100 visits for each upvote for my one and only submission.

23390/247

jncraton on Feb 1, 2013 [–]

Sounds like the 1% rule:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

RobotCaleb on Feb 1, 2013 | [–]

I should mention that was just while the post was on the front page. The numbers are still going up, but the votes seem to have stopped.

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