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Sometimes it would be very good to have an option to tell why the site was posted. In this particular case, adding a completely new the title made a lot of sens
by pmlnr 7y ago
Sometimes it would be very good to have an option to tell why the site was posted. In this particular case, adding a completely new the title made a lot of sense. Merely posting a site on waterfalls doesn't really fall into the Hacker News world, but the reason - namely the old web simplicity of it - does.
- dang 7y agoThere is such an option. Simply post a comment explaining why you submitted the site.
- mark-r 7y agoIs there anything to guarantee your comment remains the top-most comment? Otherwise it gets lost in the noise.
- dang 7y agoThat sort of comment doesn't get lost unless the thread becomes huge, in which case it's probably less relevant. Allowing commentary by the submitter to be pinned to the top would break HN's rule that submitting an article confers no special rights to interpret it for the reader. That's a bedrock rule here. It has served super well over the years. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22level%20playing%20field%22%20&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...