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by jader201·11y ago·view on hn ↗
It's fascinating (not being snarky) that this post has received about 50+ votes since I first saw it, and I've not once been able to pull the site up completely (never made it past the bot detection, and most of the time, won't even come up).

So I'm trying to understand the phenomenon:

- HN folks are bookmarking it for later based on comments (even though it may/may not be worthy of a +1)

- HN folks are +1'ing it based on the idea derived from the comments

- Those +1'ing it are actually able to make it through (though it doesn't seem so based on most of the comments)

The fascinating part to me is that, assuming it's one of the first two, how much +1's an (arguably) broken link can get based on comments.

The idea sounds interesting, and the site may very well be +1 worthy.

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Apparently no one on HN has used a dating web site before either. They have you do the same types of quizzes.
HN traffic can crash a site. Do you know how many thousands of PVs HN can send to a site? That out of those thousands, 50 would +1, that isn't a stretch.

Also, you also have to account for people who clicked +1 in the early life of the link, where it wasn't being crushed, and lead more people to it.

It worked for me when I first clicked on it, and then I upvoted it. However I am unable to take the test or refresh the site.