When the content is “HN worthy” (whatever that means), then submitting the blog post and linking to it with something like “discuss on Hacker News” has a long h

When the content is “HN worthy” (whatever that means), then submitting the blog post and linking to it with something like “discuss on Hacker News” has a long history. Of course, the HN guidelines are all in play as well as all the secret sauces for voting rings, anti-spam, user flagging, and the front page crapshoot. There are perhaps better alternatives for high quality engagement with your audience because few audiences are going to be exclusively a subset of HN users. This means that some of your audience will have to create accounts to participate. And new users will tend to be less familiar with HN community norms.