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You mentioned outsourcing your comments to HN (by way of submitting your own post and then linking to the discussion HN thread). Is this considered kosher as lo

You mentioned outsourcing your comments to HN (by way of submitting your own post and then linking to the discussion HN thread). Is this considered kosher as long as the topic is relevant to the HN community? And does it just so happen that bloggers who do this only write posts that are HN-worthy? This may work simply because it is self-policing, since self-submiting on a topic in a gray area would risk hell-banning. I am curious if you ever choose not to exercise the outsourcing for a post that wouldn't be of interest. Related discussions as to why people prefer HN as their commenting system here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247226 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247226

pasbesoin 14y ago
I think what raganwald was saying is that the blog itself will be comment-free. If topics from it end up (legitimately) posted on HN, reddit, et al., with commenting occurring there, fine. I did not take the description to mean that every post would have a link to "comment on HN" connected to a pre-spun-up HN post. (And, with HN's relatively recent changes to headers to disallow framing [1] in compliant browsers, there won't be any framed HN threads.) I think that for the latter to occur (as opposed to not -- the current situation), would very likely go against the management wishes and objectives of HN. For several reasons: Relevance (or not); the ban on excessive self-promotion; the implications for HN should this become at all widespread. TL;DR: HN is not Discus, and per my reading of OP, raganwald is not treating it like Discus, so all's fine. -- [1] Last I checked, HN is now setting X-Frame-Options to "deny". Or, they have been, and I noticed more recently when it started borking a client-side extension I was using. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Options https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Option...
- raganwald 14y ago
  I don't submit all of my posts. If I think a post is appropriate for HN, I usually wait a few hours and see if someone else submits it first. Only then do I add a link back to HN, not a frame of some kind. If my blog was a magazine, I wouldn't want to drag people into my home office to read it and discuss it, I want them to take the magazine to their book club and read it and discuss it there. And it isn't always HN. I've noticed very little interest in discussing my JavaScript posts here, so now I link to the http://reddit.com/r/javascript http://reddit.com/r/javascript discussions, where there have been more comments.
  - firebones 14y ago
    Thanks for the explanation. I didn't understand how and in what circumstances the posts were linked. It makes sense to bring the discussion to the communities of interest for a variety of reasons, especially if your topics are varied.

pasbesoin 14y ago

I think what raganwald was saying is that the blog itself will be comment-free. If topics from it end up (legitimately) posted on HN, reddit, et al., with commenting occurring there, fine. I did not take the description to mean that every post would have a link to "comment on HN" connected to a pre-spun-up HN post. (And, with HN's relatively recent changes to headers to disallow framing [1] in compliant browsers, there won't be any framed HN threads.) I think that for the latter to occur (as opposed to not -- the current situation), would very likely go against the management wishes and objectives of HN. For several reasons: Relevance (or not); the ban on excessive self-promotion; the implications for HN should this become at all widespread. TL;DR: HN is not Discus, and per my reading of OP, raganwald is not treating it like Discus, so all's fine. -- [1] Last I checked, HN is now setting X-Frame-Options to "deny". Or, they have been, and I noticed more recently when it started borking a client-side extension I was using. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Options https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Option...

raganwald 14y ago
I don't submit all of my posts. If I think a post is appropriate for HN, I usually wait a few hours and see if someone else submits it first. Only then do I add a link back to HN, not a frame of some kind. If my blog was a magazine, I wouldn't want to drag people into my home office to read it and discuss it, I want them to take the magazine to their book club and read it and discuss it there. And it isn't always HN. I've noticed very little interest in discussing my JavaScript posts here, so now I link to the http://reddit.com/r/javascript http://reddit.com/r/javascript discussions, where there have been more comments.
- firebones 14y ago
  Thanks for the explanation. I didn't understand how and in what circumstances the posts were linked. It makes sense to bring the discussion to the communities of interest for a variety of reasons, especially if your topics are varied.