How do they get comments without being on the front page? :)
A post just needs to get a handful of organic upvotes soon after submission, to get near the top of the front page. And submissions can easily stay on the front page for hours without much discussion. They just have to be interesting enough for people to consider worthy of upvoting.
In my country, we call that an interactive shell.
Fun fact, if you run Python from a command line, with no options, it defaults to such a shell.
Most scripting languages are designed to present a REPL (read-eval-print loop) in such a scenario.
This is intriguing.
On another note, I do not understand how posts make it to the top of the front page with essentially no comments.
How do they get comments without being on the front page? :)
A post just needs to get a handful of organic upvotes soon after submission, to get near the top of the front page. And submissions can easily stay on the front page for hours without much discussion. They just have to be interesting enough for people to consider worthy of upvoting.