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Should the HN rules be amended to discourage self-authored submissions? They seem to circumvent the natural filter that comes with peer-nomination, and suggest
by 7e 8y ago
Should the HN rules be amended to discourage self-authored submissions? They seem to circumvent the natural filter that comes with peer-nomination, and suggests they were written with promotion in mind.
- nickez 8y agoI thought you had to write "Show HN:" when you were publishing your own content..
- grzm 8y ago> ”Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.” https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- kbenson 8y agoHe's had some very high quality submissions of his own posts in the past, and contributes here regularly and to the benefit of most, I believe. I don't necessarily agree with his conclusions, nor the way in which he defended some of them here, but it's pretty clear this whole comment section went to hell pretty early, and I don't think he deserves most the blame for that. I don't think most the Rust contributors or well known advocates do either. There was a huge amount of drive-by commenting where people seemed to sense the way the wind was blowing and thought it would be a good idea to pile on. That didn't help anyone.