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Is it bad form to post your own stuff to Hacker News?
- vipivip 15y agoI'm fine with Ask HN/Show HN.
- gsivil 15y agoI am also fine with somebody that once in a while posts his own blog posts. Show HN is usually used for personal projects.
- mikecane 15y agoI do, but sparingly, and only when I really think it might be of interest. Mostly I post stuff from others. I didn't come here to self-promote, but I am interested in the Show HN things.
- swombat 15y agoI believe it's fine.
- jaddison 15y agoI find it curious why someone would ask this on Quora, rather than simply asking it here on HN. You would get a far more focused and realistic response - from the community itself.
- orijing 15y agoIt makes more sense when you see that Charlie Cheever (co-founder of Quora) asked it.
- tgrass 15y agoAs long as you're not dishonest about it. (That doesn't require one to admit to it, but trying to actively hide one's association I personally find insulting).
- veyron 15y agoOut of curiosity: http://www.quora.com/Jinghao-Yan http://www.quora.com/Jinghao-Yan -- what is your HN handle? I would have expected the response to give some indication that he (im guessing gender based on picture) actually used the site ...
- orijing 15y agoThat's me. I'm surprised (sort of elated) that someone dug up an old answer of mine to link here. I would've linked it, but it would've seemed a little self-promotional, and strangely ironic given my answer.
- jokermatt999 15y agoEvery single blog post? Probably not. A blog post you really spent some time on, that's on topic and you'd like to show off? Feel free. I think Hacker News is generally pretty accepting of folks who submit things to HN to discuss, rather than to self-promote. If you're submitting one of your blog posts every day or multiple times a day though, you're probably doing it wrong. At least, that's how I feel. I originally came here from reddit (and started Report the Spammers there) so I'm likely less tolerant of self-promotion than some people are.
- Tycho 15y agoI thought that was the idea. It makes for nice 'HN-exclusives' from out own community, which acts as a differentiator from other blog/news aggregation sites. If it's of the quality of article generally found on HN, then what's the worst that can happen - people either vote for it or they don't.