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Great feature, thanks. A parallel feature for "rate my startup" posts would be useful; those self-posts also tend to get lost.

• jayair 17y ago
  I would second this. My last post about Cadmus got buried almost instantly. Thanks.
• ig1 17y ago
  It doesn't seem to happen as much any more, but historically people used to post "rate my startup" posts without a url and just link to the start-up in the body of the text. If people did that now it'd show up in the Ask section, so maybe we should return to that practice.
  • rms 17y ago
    That's a good point, the existing functionality is good enough as long as you make it an "Ask HN."
  • jeromec 17y ago
    Sometimes I may not the have time to review something, and just want a quick click to see if it catches my interest. I think having a clickable link helps with click through.
• huhtenberg 17y ago
  Yup, it'd be nice to give more front-page time to the project announcements and to the posts asking for a feedback.
• pxlpshr 17y ago
  +1. This is what I miss the most as HN becomes more popular and slants toward a karma-game of news submission. I would also like to be able to submit a URL and description for readers who click on comments as a way to provide context and clarification around why I submitted a URL without having to post another comment. Adding a comment later doesn't guarantee it will be at the top unless everyone collectively votes it up which is hit or miss.
• rms 17y ago
  I would like to note that I and 44 people that voted me up initially missed that the feature and code as written were for all self posts, not just for ask posts. So far it looks like the feature is working perfectly; the vibrant discussions on self posts were one of the best things about the earlier days of Hacker News and Startup News.