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Crap, seems a fair number of my submissions end up that way. Maybe it's just me.
by wlll 15y ago
Crap, seems a fair number of my submissions end up that way. Maybe it's just me.
- ColinWright 15y agoThere are many things that may or may not be interesting, but it helps to connect them directly and explicitly to things the HN crowd might - or ought - be interested in. Bare links to motiveless items frequently get ignored or flagged. If you want a successful submission it helps to be absolutely explicit and clear as to why it's related to hacking, related to entrepreneurship, or of "deep interest." It seems to me that the HN crowd is busy and doesn't take time to make the connections. Unless the connections are explicitly drawn, items will not receive attention. ======== ADDED IN EDIT: Judging by the number of points this submission has, its age, and where it is in the "front page" hierarchy (currently 55) I'd say this submission is also getting a good number of flags, despite the clear relevance to social media, abuse of facilities, anonymity issues, etc.)
- chc 15y agoCan I suggest that instead of posting it as an Ask HN, you might get a better reception writing up a blog post which includes the story as well as your thoughts on why this is interesting news? I've noticed that things like this seem to do better as linkposts rather than Asks.
- ColinWright 15y agoCertainly they do, since linkless submissions are penalised in the rankings. But I don't really care, and I can't be bothered writing a blog post about it. I submitted it becuase I thought it was interesting, and other HNers might have something to say. There's some anti-irony in having a submission about something as ephemeral as twitter being equally impermanent. Making it a blog post would spoil that. And my blog isn't about this sort of stuff anyway.