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If you can only confront someone using a throwaway account, you’re probably being unnecessarily mean. Glad they’re trying to get word out there on what they’re

If you can only confront someone using a throwaway account, you’re probably being unnecessarily mean. Glad they’re trying to get word out there on what they’re working on. Let the voting do the voting. Thank for your OS work OP, upvote from me. Looks like a cool project!

asim 6y ago
Thank you!
jiofih 6y ago
I understand the positive viewpoint, but don’t feel it’s in the spirit of HN to repost your own project every couple months. Back in the day even just posting your own stuff (instead of someone else who found it interesting) was frowned upon. IMO a culture of curiosity vs blatant promotion is an asset for this board and should be preserved. I counted at least 26 reposts of go-micro. At what frequency should we just consider it a recurring (free) ad? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk
- city41 6y ago
  When has self promotion here been frowned upon? It’s even officially supported with “Show HN” posts.
- parhamn 6y ago
  I don’t disagree but that is the exact purpose of forum software: voting, spam detection, etc. The fact that 99.999% of HN users had no idea these posts were made (most have no votes) shows it’s working correctly. On the other hand, to a large extent getting traction on HN is a somewhat random process reliant on a few high momentum votes in the early drop. A lot of the stuff we see on the front page is pushed by voting rings. Anyway given this persons hard work on a project and desire for traction, I’d rather they try/learn to market at the expense of a couple of bytes on a DB and a few scanning eyes on /new. And it seems like this post might be their best yet :)
  - jiofih 6y ago
    You’re not thinking through the consequences. If this becomes the norm, what will the “new” and index page look like when 90% of the content is comprised of reposted project homepages looking for attention?
    - hwerehqrw 6y ago
      there's nothing new about this norm -- you'll find a ton of accounts like that. often they never make it to the front page, but occasionally a useful gem will surface. /newest is and always has been a shit show of self promotion
    - parhamn 6y ago
      > You’re not thinking through the consequences. Although everyone has their blind spots, I certainly thought of your trivial example (pollution of /newest), and thats what I suggested is the "purpose of forum software". That is what "spam" means by the way. Writing a similar-link detection mechanism is trivial and I'm sure will be done, same way reddit has, if it's an issue. Happy to discuss any other consequences you think I'm not thinking through. In fact the more interesting thing here is how inconsequential this thread is as it certainly wont have any bearing on the link submission culture @ HN. I'd suggest reaching out to the site admins instead of shaming the individual.

asim 6y ago

Thank you!

jiofih 6y ago

I understand the positive viewpoint, but don’t feel it’s in the spirit of HN to repost your own project every couple months. Back in the day even just posting your own stuff (instead of someone else who found it interesting) was frowned upon. IMO a culture of curiosity vs blatant promotion is an asset for this board and should be preserved. I counted at least 26 reposts of go-micro. At what frequency should we just consider it a recurring (free) ad? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=chuhnk

city41 6y ago
When has self promotion here been frowned upon? It’s even officially supported with “Show HN” posts.
parhamn 6y ago
I don’t disagree but that is the exact purpose of forum software: voting, spam detection, etc. The fact that 99.999% of HN users had no idea these posts were made (most have no votes) shows it’s working correctly. On the other hand, to a large extent getting traction on HN is a somewhat random process reliant on a few high momentum votes in the early drop. A lot of the stuff we see on the front page is pushed by voting rings. Anyway given this persons hard work on a project and desire for traction, I’d rather they try/learn to market at the expense of a couple of bytes on a DB and a few scanning eyes on /new. And it seems like this post might be their best yet :)
- jiofih 6y ago
  You’re not thinking through the consequences. If this becomes the norm, what will the “new” and index page look like when 90% of the content is comprised of reposted project homepages looking for attention?
  - hwerehqrw 6y ago
    there's nothing new about this norm -- you'll find a ton of accounts like that. often they never make it to the front page, but occasionally a useful gem will surface. /newest is and always has been a shit show of self promotion
  - parhamn 6y ago
    > You’re not thinking through the consequences. Although everyone has their blind spots, I certainly thought of your trivial example (pollution of /newest), and thats what I suggested is the "purpose of forum software". That is what "spam" means by the way. Writing a similar-link detection mechanism is trivial and I'm sure will be done, same way reddit has, if it's an issue. Happy to discuss any other consequences you think I'm not thinking through. In fact the more interesting thing here is how inconsequential this thread is as it certainly wont have any bearing on the link submission culture @ HN. I'd suggest reaching out to the site admins instead of shaming the individual.