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I did not downvote you but I suspect you might have been downvoted because you "stole" someone else's thunder so I would suggest you post your clone in a, perha

by caio1982 9y ago

I did not downvote you but I suspect you might have been downvoted because you "stole" someone else's thunder so I would suggest you post your clone in a, perhaps, Show HN post.

kbenson 9y ago
Interestingly, it's pretty common to also mention your own project in a comment, and how it's received seems to differ quite a bit based on how it was presented. If they start out with relevant comments about the current submission, a segue-way into a somewhat related project is usually taken well. If you start off with what can be taken as self promotion and take a while to get to relevant comments about the current submission (or never do), it's not received well. In this case, I'm actually surprised that it was downvoted. After the initial line with a link, it's all fairly general and about clone projects in general, which makes that line read as presenting bon fides and not self promotion when the comment is interpreted as a whole.
andrew_wc_brown 9y ago
To be honest I can't even tell that I've been down voted. I never thought to bother posting my clone to hackernews and likely wont unless I do a postmortem when the game has been released and if I have something worth reading. My market isn't really here on Hacker News, there's already a built in community on Discord which is where its worth link baiting so I don't even have to promote. https://discord.gg/bpk6ue https://discord.gg/bpk6ue There are sum of 100 hard code people or less and thats all I'm likely to reach. My only motivation for my clone is so the community I already participate in has something for competitive play. I could certainly say I could have written something with more breath to it and that might merit a downvote. I remember I once wanted to hack on the open-source CIV4 game to give it a friendly UI game but found the codebase to be as unfriendly as the one linked above.

I did not downvote you but I suspect you might have been downvoted because you "stole" someone else's thunder so I would suggest you post your clone in a, perhaps, Show HN post.

kbenson 9y ago

Interestingly, it's pretty common to also mention your own project in a comment, and how it's received seems to differ quite a bit based on how it was presented. If they start out with relevant comments about the current submission, a segue-way into a somewhat related project is usually taken well. If you start off with what can be taken as self promotion and take a while to get to relevant comments about the current submission (or never do), it's not received well. In this case, I'm actually surprised that it was downvoted. After the initial line with a link, it's all fairly general and about clone projects in general, which makes that line read as presenting bon fides and not self promotion when the comment is interpreted as a whole.

andrew_wc_brown 9y ago

To be honest I can't even tell that I've been down voted. I never thought to bother posting my clone to hackernews and likely wont unless I do a postmortem when the game has been released and if I have something worth reading. My market isn't really here on Hacker News, there's already a built in community on Discord which is where its worth link baiting so I don't even have to promote. https://discord.gg/bpk6ue https://discord.gg/bpk6ue There are sum of 100 hard code people or less and thats all I'm likely to reach. My only motivation for my clone is so the community I already participate in has something for competitive play. I could certainly say I could have written something with more breath to it and that might merit a downvote. I remember I once wanted to hack on the open-source CIV4 game to give it a friendly UI game but found the codebase to be as unfriendly as the one linked above.