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HN has traditionally been full of self-promotion, in both submitted links and especially in comments (e.g., lots of "disclosure, I made X" or "shameless plug, I
by reikonomusha 11y ago
HN has traditionally been full of self-promotion, in both submitted links and especially in comments (e.g., lots of "disclosure, I made X" or "shameless plug, I made X" or ...). It's not necessarily a bad thing since the community ultimately has control over what gets seen on top. And additionally sometimes you are your only advertiser.
(In this very comments page, people are talking about their own code they wrote with links to it, etc.)
- jnet 11y agoI think that is a very good thing, I want to know about these useful projects
- joeyspn 11y ago> HN has traditionally been full of self-promotion... Yes, but there are rules, and we all should play by the same rules. HNs rules state that if your story got significant attention recently (this story was 1st six months ago) it'll be killed as dupe. But the user has been sending it w/o stop even after that... >Are reposts ok? If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- tobltobs 11y ago"significant attention" is of course hard to define, but a max. of 3 scores does not count as significant attention in any book I know.
- dang 11y agoBut 300 does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914045.
- tobltobs 11y ago> got significant attention recently ... I did not include the one submission with >300 because 200 days is not "recently" imho.
- dang 11y agoI see. But for HN the dispositive time window is a year, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. I don't know when pg came up with that but it was long before I started working on HN.