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I've found out that self-posting on hacker news gets you super deranked. If you really like the writing, please be the one that posts it here.
by xena 3y ago
I've found out that self-posting on hacker news gets you super deranked. If you really like the writing, please be the one that posts it here.
- dang 3y agoPeople are welcome to post their own stuff as long as it's part of a mix of unrelated/interesting submissions. What gets accounts "super deranked" is when they only post their own stuff or use HN primarily for promotion (this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Your account hasn't been doing that at all, so you're fine, and certainly welcome to post your articles if you want to. Edit: I sent you repost invites for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36211059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36211059 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881175, both of which are great HN submissions. If you use them, the reposts will go in HN's second-chance pool, so they'll get a random placement on the front page. If you don't want to be bothered in this way, please say so and we won't do it again!