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Just a few hours before, I commented on few bloggers linking their own blogs with anything/everything. They almost treat HN like their auto-post to everywhere.

Just a few hours before, I commented on few bloggers linking their own blogs with anything/everything. They almost treat HN like their auto-post to everywhere. perspective: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=techdog (the submitter) The content may be(or not!) worth reading, but I'd rather have 'discovered content' please!

diN0bot 17y ago
I see you point. Certainly, if a blogger is constantly spamming HN and other social news sites it's kind of a annoying. On the other hand, that's the whole point of social aggregation: to democratically filter the good stuff to the top. Some variation in submission is good, as long as there's not too much off-topic spam. It's a hard balance. Social news sites are the perfect venue for (non-advertising) bloggers to self-advertise. If someone thinks their own blog post is relevant, why not post it to hacker news? Why shouldn't a blogger think all his articles are relevant?
- justlearning 17y ago
  I didn't say that a blogger shouldn't link to any of his posts. Of course every blogger has a interesting bend of thought which at time he/she feels the need to have feedback. The spam is when "every" post comes in.
- kulkarnic 17y ago
  Perhaps we could have a filter that detects if a particular user consistently submits links from a particular domain only. I wonder if it'll work (maybe it targets too uncommon a special-case). Really, we do need a way to custom-query news.yc so we can see the effects of prototype filters. Any way to do it already in existence?
DanielBMarkham 17y ago
Isn't that the entire point of the filter process? Some of the stuff gets voted up, some gets voted down. The submitter gets feedback on their work. What's the point of the "New" heading if it isn't a firehose of stuff that the community on HN think might be interesting? Why would I be annoyed by whatever appeared there? Now when yahoos keep voting up material from the same famous people (and I'm not referring to PG) then THAT kind of fanboy stuff gets annoying -- much more annoying that somebody who likes writing and wants to share. I write one article a week or so. Most of it is technical. So I submit them here. Sometimes I submit other stuff. But I don't worry about how much material I'm submitting of my own vs other sites. There's nothing magical about "discovery" In fact, it's really not discovered at all until the community decides they like it (or not). That's the entire point of why the board exists.

diN0bot 17y ago

I see you point. Certainly, if a blogger is constantly spamming HN and other social news sites it's kind of a annoying. On the other hand, that's the whole point of social aggregation: to democratically filter the good stuff to the top. Some variation in submission is good, as long as there's not too much off-topic spam. It's a hard balance. Social news sites are the perfect venue for (non-advertising) bloggers to self-advertise. If someone thinks their own blog post is relevant, why not post it to hacker news? Why shouldn't a blogger think all his articles are relevant?

justlearning 17y ago
I didn't say that a blogger shouldn't link to any of his posts. Of course every blogger has a interesting bend of thought which at time he/she feels the need to have feedback. The spam is when "every" post comes in.
kulkarnic 17y ago
Perhaps we could have a filter that detects if a particular user consistently submits links from a particular domain only. I wonder if it'll work (maybe it targets too uncommon a special-case). Really, we do need a way to custom-query news.yc so we can see the effects of prototype filters. Any way to do it already in existence?

DanielBMarkham 17y ago

Isn't that the entire point of the filter process? Some of the stuff gets voted up, some gets voted down. The submitter gets feedback on their work. What's the point of the "New" heading if it isn't a firehose of stuff that the community on HN think might be interesting? Why would I be annoyed by whatever appeared there? Now when yahoos keep voting up material from the same famous people (and I'm not referring to PG) then THAT kind of fanboy stuff gets annoying -- much more annoying that somebody who likes writing and wants to share. I write one article a week or so. Most of it is technical. So I submit them here. Sometimes I submit other stuff. But I don't worry about how much material I'm submitting of my own vs other sites. There's nothing magical about "discovery" In fact, it's really not discovered at all until the community decides they like it (or not). That's the entire point of why the board exists.