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What, because I talked about one of my projects? Help me out here: can you point to an article from someone's blog that showed up on Hacker News within the pas

by simonw 5mo ago

What, because I talked about one of my projects? Help me out here: can you point to an article from someone's blog that showed up on Hacker News within the past few weeks that you wouldn't classify as "blogspam" and explain how it differs from the kinds of thing I write about?

alecco 5mo ago
Low effort content. You keep mention your product from the start over and over. There's not much useful information in the anecdotal post. It could've been a one-liner tweet. Good corporate tech blogs at least give something useful or insightful for the reader and only after that they dare plug their product/service near the end.
- simonw 5mo ago
  Hot damn, if I'm communicating less value than corporate tech blogs there really is no hope for me. ("You keep mention your product from the start over and over" - I don't think that's fair, I mention Datasette Agent once at the start to set the scene but I spend more time talking about AgentsView than my own projects in the bulk of the piece.)
  - alecco 5mo ago
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    - simonw 5mo ago
      A lot of people find real value in my posts. You're an outlier here. I care a lot about not wasting people's time. I never want to post anything where a substantial portion of readers come away regretting having spent their time reading it. (OK there's an exception in that I delight in posting photos of birds on my blog, but I figure those are pretty quick for people to skip over if they don't like photos of birds!)
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      - uncivilized 5mo ago
        Your content is similar to those on Reddit that post things to karma farm. Parent commenter is not an outlier here. It’s just that dissenters rarely comment or even browse HN anymore due to the low quality posts.
        simonw 5mo ago
        I try very hard to provide more value than karma farmers on Reddit. If I'm failing at that I'd appreciate examples of others who are doing a better job so I can learn from them and do better myself.
- jimbokun 5mo ago
  Go away. I enjoy simonw’s posts and the discussions about them here. Your vague unsubstantiated criticisms are very trollish and less useful, less insightful, and lower effort than the content you are criticizing.

by simonw 5mo ago

alecco 5mo ago

Low effort content. You keep mention your product from the start over and over. There's not much useful information in the anecdotal post. It could've been a one-liner tweet. Good corporate tech blogs at least give something useful or insightful for the reader and only after that they dare plug their product/service near the end.

simonw 5mo ago
Hot damn, if I'm communicating less value than corporate tech blogs there really is no hope for me. ("You keep mention your product from the start over and over" - I don't think that's fair, I mention Datasette Agent once at the start to set the scene but I spend more time talking about AgentsView than my own projects in the bulk of the piece.)
- alecco 5mo ago
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  - simonw 5mo ago
    A lot of people find real value in my posts. You're an outlier here. I care a lot about not wasting people's time. I never want to post anything where a substantial portion of readers come away regretting having spent their time reading it. (OK there's an exception in that I delight in posting photos of birds on my blog, but I figure those are pretty quick for people to skip over if they don't like photos of birds!)
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    - uncivilized 5mo ago
      Your content is similar to those on Reddit that post things to karma farm. Parent commenter is not an outlier here. It’s just that dissenters rarely comment or even browse HN anymore due to the low quality posts.
      - simonw 5mo ago
        I try very hard to provide more value than karma farmers on Reddit. If I'm failing at that I'd appreciate examples of others who are doing a better job so I can learn from them and do better myself.
jimbokun 5mo ago
Go away. I enjoy simonw’s posts and the discussions about them here. Your vague unsubstantiated criticisms are very trollish and less useful, less insightful, and lower effort than the content you are criticizing.