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> As far as I am aware self posts are allowed, so what makes this particular link not allowed? Another user gave a good answer. Parts of https://news.ycombina
by troydavis 6y ago
> As far as I am aware self posts are allowed, so what makes this particular link not allowed?
Another user gave a good answer. Parts of
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html may be relevant as well: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."
and
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
Basically, submit the things you find that are most interesting to you. Once in a while, that might be your own stuff, but mostly it won't be. In your situation, maybe your newsletter contains the things you found interesting; instead of submitting the newsletter, submit the most interesting thing it links to.
- mjgs 6y agoThanks for the comment. One challenge is that the format is very different, my linkblog, which the newsletter is a roundup of, doesn’t have titles, it has a description and a link, so there is no easy way to map that to an HN post. The next best thing was to just post a link to the edition of the newsletter, which has all the best posts from the previous week. It would be great to find a way to share, but doing the work twice just for HN is beyond what is possible.