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Wolfire regularly approaches me to post their blog posting to HN. The blogs are really interesting and seem to be very popular so I really don't feel bad about

Wolfire regularly approaches me to post their blog posting to HN. The blogs are really interesting and seem to be very popular so I really don't feel bad about posting it for them. In fact I don't do much distortion either I mainly just post it with the regular title.

jacquesm 17y ago
Didn't you ever wonder why they don't post the stuff themselves?
- zitterbewegung 17y ago
  I don't know why they kept on approaching me. I am old friends with the person. I started posting for him on reddit.com . They could have done my job with their own account.
chaosprophet 17y ago
Even wolfire? Why can't they just post the stuff themselves? I mean I find the wolfire blog to be very very very interesting, and I don't really see the need for them to use a proxy to post for them. The articles would be quite popular on their own merit.
- zitterbewegung 17y ago
  I am old friends with the person who created the site. I don't know why they went though me apparently I have a good track record for posting.
jeff18 17y ago
I will take full responsibility for this. I felt weird submitting my own content, so I asked my friend to submit it on my behalf, which is obviously much worse. I have since learned that submitting your own content is encouraged, so I am basically a dumb ass and humbly apologize to the HN community and to zitterbewegung for asking him in the first place. -Jeff from Wolfire
- jacquesm 17y ago
  Spoken like a man, thanks for that.
  - jolie 17y ago
    Hey Jacques - Well, we've certainly got egg on our face now. =) In Dana's defense, she wasn't asking for a submission. She was trying to put the story on your radar in the event that you were interested in the topic. I'm sorry you saw this as her trying to turn HN into Digg - which RWW certainly doesn't want to do. We'll be submitting our own stuff from now on. In the end, whether you're talking about Digg, Twitter, Reddit, or a more niche site such as HN or Slashdot, the best content comes from active members of the community. I guess ReadWriteWeb needs to have more startup writers as active participants, not just content creators.
  - zitterbewegung 17y ago
    Yea after my suggestion :-)

jacquesm 17y ago

Didn't you ever wonder why they don't post the stuff themselves?

zitterbewegung 17y ago
I don't know why they kept on approaching me. I am old friends with the person. I started posting for him on reddit.com . They could have done my job with their own account.

chaosprophet 17y ago

Even wolfire? Why can't they just post the stuff themselves? I mean I find the wolfire blog to be very very very interesting, and I don't really see the need for them to use a proxy to post for them. The articles would be quite popular on their own merit.

zitterbewegung 17y ago
I am old friends with the person who created the site. I don't know why they went though me apparently I have a good track record for posting.

jeff18 17y ago

I will take full responsibility for this. I felt weird submitting my own content, so I asked my friend to submit it on my behalf, which is obviously much worse. I have since learned that submitting your own content is encouraged, so I am basically a dumb ass and humbly apologize to the HN community and to zitterbewegung for asking him in the first place. -Jeff from Wolfire

jacquesm 17y ago
Spoken like a man, thanks for that.
- jolie 17y ago
  Hey Jacques - Well, we've certainly got egg on our face now. =) In Dana's defense, she wasn't asking for a submission. She was trying to put the story on your radar in the event that you were interested in the topic. I'm sorry you saw this as her trying to turn HN into Digg - which RWW certainly doesn't want to do. We'll be submitting our own stuff from now on. In the end, whether you're talking about Digg, Twitter, Reddit, or a more niche site such as HN or Slashdot, the best content comes from active members of the community. I guess ReadWriteWeb needs to have more startup writers as active participants, not just content creators.
- zitterbewegung 17y ago
  Yea after my suggestion :-)