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I'm confused - are we meant to comment on this or the comment it links to? Not sure why this was posted as a top level story. Make it into an Ask HN or somethi

I'm confused - are we meant to comment on this or the comment it links to? Not sure why this was posted as a top level story. Make it into an Ask HN or something at least.

palish 18y ago
I posted it as a toplevel so that the idea would gain more exposure. (I certainly don't care about karma -- it's meaningless.) I'm genuinely interested to know what people think about the idea of open-sourcing their product at launch. And the more people who give their opinion, the better. Feel free to leave a comment here or in the other thread.
- jwilliams 18y ago
  Well I'm probably just being a stick in the mud - but that seems like a bad idea. If everyone posted comments as threads the top page would be a cluttered mess.
  - palish 18y ago
    Only if everyone made insightful or otherwise useful comments, which the community then upvoted. That would be a good thing, not a bad thing. Also please consider that I spent a good deal of time on crafting my reply, in the spirit of hopefully helping someone (and not to read myself talk). Also, my reply was about a totally different topic than the thread it was inspired by.
    - unalone 18y ago
      Your post definitely was worth submitting as a topic, agreed. I don't think that it's worthwhile too often, but in this case it's thoughtful, well-written, and interesting. Better than most blog posts I've read recently. I had a comment of mine submitted as a post a while back, and I was very grateful - I thought the comment was worth a post. If comments are valuable stories, then, I don't see a problem at all with your self-submitting this one.
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- jumper 18y ago
  I find it interesting I'm slowly developing a love of getting karma. It seems to come from if I'm getting it, someone is reading my comments, and there may be interesting replies to read....

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I'm confused - are we meant to comment on this or the comment it links to? Not sure why this was posted as a top level story. Make it into an Ask HN or somethi

by jwilliams 18y ago

I'm confused - are we meant to comment on this or the comment it links to? Not sure why this was posted as a top level story. Make it into an Ask HN or something at least.

palish 18y ago
I posted it as a toplevel so that the idea would gain more exposure. (I certainly don't care about karma -- it's meaningless.) I'm genuinely interested to know what people think about the idea of open-sourcing their product at launch. And the more people who give their opinion, the better. Feel free to leave a comment here or in the other thread.
- jwilliams 18y ago
  Well I'm probably just being a stick in the mud - but that seems like a bad idea. If everyone posted comments as threads the top page would be a cluttered mess.
  - palish 18y ago
    Only if everyone made insightful or otherwise useful comments, which the community then upvoted. That would be a good thing, not a bad thing. Also please consider that I spent a good deal of time on crafting my reply, in the spirit of hopefully helping someone (and not to read myself talk). Also, my reply was about a totally different topic than the thread it was inspired by.
    - unalone 18y ago
      Your post definitely was worth submitting as a topic, agreed. I don't think that it's worthwhile too often, but in this case it's thoughtful, well-written, and interesting. Better than most blog posts I've read recently. I had a comment of mine submitted as a post a while back, and I was very grateful - I thought the comment was worth a post. If comments are valuable stories, then, I don't see a problem at all with your self-submitting this one.
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- jumper 18y ago
  I find it interesting I'm slowly developing a love of getting karma. It seems to come from if I'm getting it, someone is reading my comments, and there may be interesting replies to read....