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Ask PG: Getting started on HN?
I'm new and want to contributed but don't really understand the community dynamics and product.
I realize the basics around voting and the fact you shouldn't ask for or compel people to vote for content.
1.) Looks like all ASK posts don't have a link, is that a community agreed requirement
2.) When do people downvote?
3.) Are there moderators and who are they?
4.) Is sharing your own work viewed negatively?
5.) Linking vs re-posting text to HN. What do you prefer?
If people would share what they know, I'd be happy to summarize it and re-share.
Thanks! Sorry for being a noob =) But I've been waiting for someone else to ask these and haven't seen it.
- jgrahamc 14y agoRead the FAQ: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Read the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Hang around for a while and read the comments and see what the style is here.
- cyrusradfar 14y agoReally helpful stuff. Realizing, I never saw those footer links! Thanks @jgrahamc.
- lmm 14y ago1) I wouldn't say community agreed so much as set by PG. But yes, it's a requirement. 2) They exercise their own judgement. The capability becomes available once you pass a deliberately non-public karma threshold that I honestly couldn't remember if I wanted to. 3) There are. I don't believe their identities are public. 4) No. At least not in general. Sharing non-interesting posts is viewed negatively. 5) For anything that exists on its own page or is longer than a paragraph or two, definitely link. I guess you can make a case for inline quoting when you just want a very short excerpt that can only be found on a long webpage.
- codegeek 14y agoRegarding your point 2, the min. Karma threshold is 500 to be able to downvote.
- cyrusradfar 14y agoThanks and wow! Looks like I will only be upvoting for a long while.
- pc86 14y agoThis is just supposition, but I believe that it is also periodically increased. It was around 200 at one point, I think.
- akcreek 14y agoI believe I read once that the threshold increases as membership does.
- cyrusradfar 14y agoThank you for the answers and tips! Really appreciate it @lmm.
- lmm 14y agoSince you're new and looking for tips: "thanks" posts like this are seen negatively, they add noise to the conversation. If you want to express your appreciation for someone's reply it's better just to upvote it.