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I wouldn't recommend trying to affirmatively create an HN submission for each blog post because they'll end up getting marked as dead (and your account could be
by gnicholas 4y ago
I wouldn't recommend trying to affirmatively create an HN submission for each blog post because they'll end up getting marked as dead (and your account could be negatively affected as well). What you could do that would be preferable would be to have a discuss/discussion button at the bottom of your blog, and when it's clicked it creates an HN submission. If the submission already exists, then it takes the person to the existing discussion. I believe I've seen this on someone else's blog.
But to be honest, I found this to be somewhat shady, since it resulted in an logged-in user creating/upvoting a submission without them realizing that's what would happen. If you could give notice/consent with your button label, that would avoid this shadiness.
- kevincox 4y agoAre you saying that a link/form on a third-party site can create a submission? That sounds like an XSRF bug in HN.
- gnicholas 4y agoI'm 95% sure that was the case. I tried remembering/looking for the site that did it, but I was unsuccessful. The site had a number of very popular submissions, partly because people were inadvertently submitting the page every time they went to go look at the discussion on HN (so they thought). It's possible @dang shut down whatever method they were using. I assume that submissions count more than upvotes in the algorithm, so this would be deceptive/unfair. I'm not technical, but wouldn't it be the same as using the submission bookmarklet?
- kevincox 4y agoI don't know what bookmark you are talking about but I would expect that it just pre-fills the URL and title but would still expect it to require user interaction on HN afterwards.