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The idea here is that the submitter determines the rank of his/her link. Moreover, the submitter may change this rank at any time.

The issue is that a link ranked highly will have to share that rank with many links. The probability that a user will see a link at rank k depends on the score of that link with respect to the scores of other links with rank k.

There's no voting here. Rather, the point score of a submission is equal to the submitter's Numbrosia Puzzle score from the last 24 hours divided by the number of submissions made by that submitter.

http://numbrosia.com/?cmd=puzzle_n

http://numbrosia.com

Note that it makes sense to delete submissions so that the set of submissions associated with you is not too large (so that the score for each submission is not too low).

How is this handled when one is looking for seed funding. Does one submitt to one funder at a time and wait or what?

How about an unofficial poll of who submitted and who got the OK.

Would be interesting to see how many people submitted and how many was invited? Submitters, please post your results here in this thread.

If the submitter wants to push his/her submission to the front page, then he/she will need to be quite skillful at a game/puzzle chosen by that news site.

Note that the submitted news item may have nothing to do with games/puzzles.

Note also that you would need to compete separately for each submission.

If the game/puzzle is chosen carefully, then I think you may get interesting results. For example, imagine what would happen if doing well in the game/puzzle requires strong math skills vs strong verbal skills, etc.

I've recently seen a post on yc news reach #5 of the front page with only 3 points and 2 comments, each comment with no more than 2 points. What makes such a submission reach the front page? Human editors? Inconceivably high karma of the submitter? Or is there something more interesting going on here?

* do you think many people (including savvy web surfers) would read ads using this service?

* this is sort of like reddit but where self-promotion is the norm and ad scoring is based on the effort of the submitter rather than the quality of the linked page/site.

* which services (if any) have tried an approach like this including the reading comprehension check?

* would I be able to use adsense on the same page or is that against the terms of service?

Why are News.YC submitters/voters so eager to do Microsoft's marketing for them?

I dont know the specific numbers - but I guess if you looked at a site like socialblade.com you could probably guesstimate the submitters/regular submitters number.

PG, what exactly is "a louder voice"? If an article will be raised up by two or more points by a person with bigger voting power will its submitter get an adequate karma raise? Is there a limit? Is there a bonus for the up-voter? Do you take into consideration current karma? Does voting power apply to down voting (I assume it does)?

I think there will be a temporary higher amount of voters on the New queue, seeking for a bigger voting power, which is a good thing because the good stories will get to the main site faster. Maybe it won't be temporary as newcommers will strive for power and the easiest/only way is voting the good stories soon.

However, consider this situation: A speculator comes around, voting up at random (thinking "someone will have to raise this one up") and then another one appers, seeing that a story already has 2,3 or 4 points, he could raise it up to just because it will earn him a better voting power... Will the system be able to deal with this (altough I'm not really sure this is a real threat)?