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What is the etiquette on posting literal company press releases? I'm not asking snarkily, but mean it as a serious question. I don't want to see an HN that's
by JadeNB 10y ago
What is the etiquette on posting literal company press releases? I'm not asking snarkily, but mean it as a serious question. I don't want to see an HN that's dominated by ads for the latest gadgets, but I understand that this is something of interest to hackers, and perhaps that criterion dominates all others.
- manaskarekar 10y agoHonestly, I felt a little dirty posting this, but I stumbled on it on some blog and thought of linking straight to the press release. I just thought this was an interesting product. I am in no way affiliated with HP or have any financial incentive in sharing this link.
- maxerickson 10y agoYeah, I think the same rules apply as for any other link. (which the way I see it, as long as you aren't posting a torrent of boring HP links, it would even be fine if you worked at HP and posted the link, so long as it is interesting)
- wvenable 10y agoThere are upvote/downvote buttons -- I'm unsure why any other criteria is needed.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoI was unaware that stories could be downvoted, or I lack the karma to do so.
- soared 10y agoYou need 500 karma to downvote.
- ChrisClark 10y ago1225 karma here and I still can't downvote stories, just comments.
- detaro 10y agothat's for comments, downvotes for stories don't exist.
- newjersey 10y agoI am not complaining. I don't trust myself with the responsibility anyway but I have 500+ and I cannot down vote stories. I used to avoid voting on comments on my phone for a while because I was afraid I'd end up downing with my fat fingers but they've fixed it with an undown link when I down vote. Maybe they've relieved me from the responsibility of down voting stories? I don't know how I feel about down voting because there is always a desire to down vote dissenting opinion. tl;dr that's for comments afaik
- gergles 10y agoYou can 'flag' stories with 500 karma, which is basically a super-downvote in the sense that a flag suggests the story doesn't belong on HN at all. My sense is that it is a much stronger signal than a comment downvote.
- Zikes 10y agoPer the guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting." I think that rule should trump any other, regardless of source or topic.
- ksk 10y agoWell everytime Apple, MS, Google launch something, no matter how irrelevant, it ends up on the front page. As a point of principle, if that's OK with folks, why shouldn't it be OK here too. Heck I remember seeing a _font_ change, (by either Apple or Google), ending up on the front page.
- iNate2000 10y agoI was a little disappointed when I saw that it doesn't have a release date. Just a "Notify Me" link.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI saw "December 2016" in there somewhere...