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Hey, I agree that I did but I'm not even promoting my project here or anything. What exactly are you trying to convey through your comment?

dang 6y ago
Most likely, what the comments are indicating is that you've been posting too repetitively about this. HN has a sort of immune system where, after a while, the outputs will get harsher if people feel like the inputs have been too repetitive. The currency of HN is curiosity (a.k.a. intellectual interest). Your desire to improve your situation is certainly understandable, and even laudable, but that doesn't automatically gratify the curiosity of others. If you re-read your post closely, you might notice that it mostly talks about how much you've achieved and the things that you want for yourself. Those achievements are great! and you have every right to want those things for yourself! but they aren't the sort of things that readers find interesting. You might get better results if you focus on what other people want more than on what you want. (This is a lesson we all need to work on.) On HN, focusing on what other people want means focusing on what they find intrinsically interesting. It's actually hard to do that if your primary goal is to get users or press coverage—readers can always feel when that's the real underlying goal. If you want to gratify HN's curiosity, a better strategy is to work on something for its own sake—i.e. purely because you find it interesting—and then write about it from that perspective.
- ev1 6y ago
  In my experience, this is quite accurate: regardless of what site, HN, reddit, digg, etc., there's a tipping point where it becomes "Show HN: I did something cool" transitioning into "this is a spammer, get out"-type of innate reaction. Another thing is the constant playing off of how something is special purely because of age; this has been done over and over on HN, and as a lurker I've seen tons of "im 12 and i made a css framework|cool library|js framework" type of stuff, and it really isn't helpful or useful for me to know or care about this.
  - schruteroots 6y ago
    I agree to what you're saying to some extent on what you're saying but the part about me mentioning my age, I'm doing it purely because I've got college applications as well and it wouldn't hurt to get some good coverage and have it in my application as well.
    - ev1 6y ago
      So does everyone else - the way you word things, it reads like you feel like you're entitled to "press coverage" or "userbase" and just expecting it to exist or something you're supposed to get. Arguably it's even worse that you're making multiple HN accounts for spamming it.

dang 6y ago

Most likely, what the comments are indicating is that you've been posting too repetitively about this. HN has a sort of immune system where, after a while, the outputs will get harsher if people feel like the inputs have been too repetitive. The currency of HN is curiosity (a.k.a. intellectual interest). Your desire to improve your situation is certainly understandable, and even laudable, but that doesn't automatically gratify the curiosity of others. If you re-read your post closely, you might notice that it mostly talks about how much you've achieved and the things that you want for yourself. Those achievements are great! and you have every right to want those things for yourself! but they aren't the sort of things that readers find interesting. You might get better results if you focus on what other people want more than on what you want. (This is a lesson we all need to work on.) On HN, focusing on what other people want means focusing on what they find intrinsically interesting. It's actually hard to do that if your primary goal is to get users or press coverage—readers can always feel when that's the real underlying goal. If you want to gratify HN's curiosity, a better strategy is to work on something for its own sake—i.e. purely because you find it interesting—and then write about it from that perspective.

ev1 6y ago
In my experience, this is quite accurate: regardless of what site, HN, reddit, digg, etc., there's a tipping point where it becomes "Show HN: I did something cool" transitioning into "this is a spammer, get out"-type of innate reaction. Another thing is the constant playing off of how something is special purely because of age; this has been done over and over on HN, and as a lurker I've seen tons of "im 12 and i made a css framework|cool library|js framework" type of stuff, and it really isn't helpful or useful for me to know or care about this.
- schruteroots 6y ago
  I agree to what you're saying to some extent on what you're saying but the part about me mentioning my age, I'm doing it purely because I've got college applications as well and it wouldn't hurt to get some good coverage and have it in my application as well.
  - ev1 6y ago
    So does everyone else - the way you word things, it reads like you feel like you're entitled to "press coverage" or "userbase" and just expecting it to exist or something you're supposed to get. Arguably it's even worse that you're making multiple HN accounts for spamming it.