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> 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.
by itemFid3d 6y ago
> 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.
- jamii 6y agoJudging by https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scattered-thoughts.net https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scattered-thoughts.ne... this would have been submitted anyway. But I will be more patient next time. Nervous energy, you know.
- petercooper 6y agoThat's what Show HN is for and this item could easily be made into such.
- dang 6y agoNot for newsletters: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Newsletters aren't a great fit for HN in general, either, the same way that a magazine or a newspaper or a blog home page in general don't make great submissions. There's rarely anything interesting to say about them at that level, so it's much better to link to a specific article from the newsletter or magazine or blog, etc. Lists in general don't make great HN submissions for the same reason: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=denominator%20list%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... I hope it's clear that I'm not criticizing this newsletter at all, and that interesting specific articles from it are fine to submit. (Though I've noticed with the new wave of newsletters that it's sometimes technically hard to link to specific content from them. Not sure what's up with that.)