I love the Show HN posts too. I recently had a rather successful one here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564183 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156

I love the Show HN posts too. I recently had a rather successful one here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564183 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564183 A lot of very, very interesting discussions arise from them, and there's a lot to be learned from them. But for the purpose of receiving simple feedback like: "Was it clear what this site does?", "Which feature was most useful?", "Your thoughts on the usability of the site?" Show HN will often fall short. While often times there is incentive to add feedback on HN, there is often times not incentive to just ramble on about your user experience -- though this might be very helpful to the op. Finally, I'm pretty confident that people will want to view the feedback they've gotten, and will happily give feedback to other people in order to view it. I don't think there's a "good chance" that the user won't give someone else feedback to get credit to view yours. I think there's an exceptionally high chance all feedbacks will be viewed within a very short amount of time. Only the very latest feedbacks would not be viewable, and with a high enough churn, they wouldn't be unviewable for long.