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No, I took the first sentence of my article and then edited the rest of the intro + conclusion to keep it short for HN.
by emctech 1mo ago
No, I took the first sentence of my article and then edited the rest of the intro + conclusion to keep it short for HN.
- left-struck 1mo agoYou should make that obvious in some way like using “TLDR”. I assume many people, like me, would attempt to parse your comment as a comment on the article, after all it’s in the comment section, and read that way it’s very confusing lol.
- emctech 1mo agoSorry, this is my first post to HN and in the submission it looked like the description text i added would be part of the post header.
- lxgr 1mo agoI was just about to highlight this particular HN quirk. I suppose a lot of people here only ever comment (or submit URLs without any text of their own) and aren't familiar with it.
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- 40four 1mo agoDon’t apologize. This was a very fascinating read, and a good technical write up, especially for you first even HN post. It’s not your fault others didn’t look at the username :)
- emctech 1mo agoThanks for the feedback :D
- chrisjj 1mo agoHN's fault entirely. The post form's actioning "text" as a comment is remiss.
- left-struck 1mo agoAh, sorry I wasn’t aware of that either
- left-struck 1mo agoSorry, I didn’t realise you were the author
- 40four 1mo agoThey shouldn’t have to make it “obvious”. They are the actual author of the article. It’s not their fault you didn’t double check the usernames. It’s not uncommon for authors to comment on their own articles.