That's a good point, although the question is on HN and SD, what % of items do users actually click on? While HN has far more single news items, Slashdot has a lot of comments, and the articles themselves are longer. Apples & Oranges to be sure.

I'll probably write about that on monday!

It varies widely I imagine- you can see it on Slashdot very obviously: some stories get 1k comments, others get 50. There is a HUGE variance in interest on stories- and it's not always predictable. But when the planets align, I bet the traffic generated could easily be low 6 figures to a single site, and that would be over 3-6 hours.

I created this account recently. I never posted during the original story that got picked up here (although I did read the comments). And yes, it's me. But you have no proof of that fact.

I created the account yesterday simply to share the story that Slashdot actually picked up. Then I emailed info@ here to try to get 'CmdrTaco' back. It sucks that someone is squatting my nick here!

Sorry, was actually holding it for you since I saw you resign from slashdot. Email the address in the profile and I'll turn it over to you.

Honourable cyber squatting? What is the world coming to?

It'd be interesting to get an idea of how the "HN affect" compares to slashdot. Followup article by chance?

I had some estimates, but this was the first time that I was ever 100% completely on the outside looking in.

You two should set up a website. Allow voting on comments, or something.. :)

Fair enough. :)

I should see if I can get one of my posts to the top of reddit. So far all my best submissions were on the reddit blog.