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HN policy is that submissions always link to the primary source. Alternative proxy links (Thread Reader, archive.today, archive.org) are welcome in the comments

HN policy is that submissions always link to the primary source. Alternative proxy links (Thread Reader, archive.today, archive.org) are welcome in the comments, but as they are not the primary source, they should not be submitted as the HN topic.

neilv 2y ago
And, for whatever reason, Twitter/X links get upvoted on HN. Otherwise, eventually word would get out to content creators that, if they want exposure on HN, they'd have to put their content somewhere other than Twitter/X.
- LorenDB 2y ago
  From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. If there's things on Twitter that are interesting, they may be submitted. Blocking Twitter would effectively block quite a few interesting submissions. Furthermore, most people don't go to Twitter to get HN upvotes; they're going there for likes and retweets.
  - thomassmith65 2y ago
    Blocking Twitter would effectively block quite a few interesting submissions. Society has a problem with information overload these days, not information shortage. If X is a pain in the ass to browse then 'screw em' - most of what anyone posts there is, or gets, regurgitated via the other social media sites, anyways.
- next_xibalba 2y ago
  Don’t you think they get upvoted bc other HN users don’t share your opinion on X links or outright disagree with you?
  - neilv 2y ago
    > Don’t you think they get upvoted bc other HN users don’t share your opinion on X links or outright disagree with you? I would guess that they get upvoted because people aren't aware of the concern, people are aware but disagree, people are aware and at least sorta disagree but didn't notice this time, or there's shill upvoting. Regardless of the reason, in theory, HN might have the power to change the behavior of Twitter/X posters.
  - meiraleal 2y ago
    Most HN users comment on the title, not the content. The title and the xeet will have similar length anyway.
    - next_xibalba 2y ago
      Said another way, they either don’t mind or don’t care about X links.
- meiraleal 2y ago
  That will take a bit of time but I do flag and downvote whenever I can. I'm not going to signup to that to read 2 lines of text.
cma 2y ago
At what point is the front page all original source intranet links?

neilv 2y ago

And, for whatever reason, Twitter/X links get upvoted on HN. Otherwise, eventually word would get out to content creators that, if they want exposure on HN, they'd have to put their content somewhere other than Twitter/X.

LorenDB 2y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. If there's things on Twitter that are interesting, they may be submitted. Blocking Twitter would effectively block quite a few interesting submissions. Furthermore, most people don't go to Twitter to get HN upvotes; they're going there for likes and retweets.
- thomassmith65 2y ago
  Blocking Twitter would effectively block quite a few interesting submissions. Society has a problem with information overload these days, not information shortage. If X is a pain in the ass to browse then 'screw em' - most of what anyone posts there is, or gets, regurgitated via the other social media sites, anyways.
next_xibalba 2y ago
Don’t you think they get upvoted bc other HN users don’t share your opinion on X links or outright disagree with you?
- neilv 2y ago
  > Don’t you think they get upvoted bc other HN users don’t share your opinion on X links or outright disagree with you? I would guess that they get upvoted because people aren't aware of the concern, people are aware but disagree, people are aware and at least sorta disagree but didn't notice this time, or there's shill upvoting. Regardless of the reason, in theory, HN might have the power to change the behavior of Twitter/X posters.
- meiraleal 2y ago
  Most HN users comment on the title, not the content. The title and the xeet will have similar length anyway.
  - next_xibalba 2y ago
    Said another way, they either don’t mind or don’t care about X links.
meiraleal 2y ago
That will take a bit of time but I do flag and downvote whenever I can. I'm not going to signup to that to read 2 lines of text.

cma 2y ago

At what point is the front page all original source intranet links?