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I didn't really expect this to get traction Most of your submits anymore are just tweets, and most of those have been both inflammatory and unvetted. Some wer

I didn't really expect this to get traction Most of your submits anymore are just tweets, and most of those have been both inflammatory and unvetted. Some were even deleted the same day. I think it's time that Twitter and Reddit be disallowed as submit sources. If a submitter can't find one actual source article or even a blog entry (or bother to write one themselves!) with supporting references or corresponding content, it doesn't belong here.

DoreenMichele 7y ago
There are tweets that do well here. I've had tweets I posted hit the front page. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=doreenmichele+twitter.com https://hn.algolia.com/?q=doreenmichele+twitter.com This is a large enough forum that it's reasonable to assume by default that most posts will not get traction. I go through periods where I mostly post from Twitter, but that doesn't constitute the majority of my submissions. I don't post stuff to be inflammatory. I post stuff I think is interesting for some reason. Just because I think it's interesting doesn't guarantee it will be interesting to anyone here. I'm perfectly happy to write and post original content, but I also get crabbed at for submitting blog entries I wrote myself. At least some of that appears to be a case of "sexism is alive and well."