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ChuckMcM 13y ago
Side note. It is actually kind of lame when people post their own blog posts to HN, so I never assume the person posting the link is the person who wrote the article. In that regard the personal pronoun is not ambiguous. That said, I totally understand the desire by people writing blog posts wanting to get HN's take on it. But that is a different problem.
- hdra 13y ago
  Why is that? I never posted my own writing to HN, but I actually thought a lot of people share their work on HN, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
- nitrogen 13y ago
  Not being able to submit your own blog post presents a bootstrapping problem for new, potentially useful blogs. Also, HN's guidelines recommend submitting a blog post if you want to add your own commentary to an article (or at least they used to). As someone who occasionally posts a Show HN from my own blog, and whose current career was heavily influenced by one such post making the front page a couple of years ago, I hope you'll reconsider your opposition. :-)
  - ChuckMcM 13y ago
    I don't oppose it per se, it's just somewhat awkward. It is annoying when the only contribution some user on the site has is to submit their blog entries to it. For folks who are contributing members that annoyance doesn't apply. And to be perfectly clear this is just my own take on it, I also think it is awkward when someone at a meeting opens the conversation with my by pitching their company or project. Thinking about it a bit more deeply as I write this I think that is the crux of the issue. Amongst people I know, having them suggest something they have done, or are working on, sort of out of the blue feels like "catching up" whereas for people I don't know that feels more awkward. I don't have a lot of context to evaluate what they are pitching and for me, perhaps for others, it's uncomfortable.

Mods: I submitted this post with a different title since I am not the author of the post. Please change the title to reflect this; I don't want to mislead anyone.

ChuckMcM 13y ago

Side note. It is actually kind of lame when people post their own blog posts to HN, so I never assume the person posting the link is the person who wrote the article. In that regard the personal pronoun is not ambiguous. That said, I totally understand the desire by people writing blog posts wanting to get HN's take on it. But that is a different problem.

hdra 13y ago
Why is that? I never posted my own writing to HN, but I actually thought a lot of people share their work on HN, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
nitrogen 13y ago
Not being able to submit your own blog post presents a bootstrapping problem for new, potentially useful blogs. Also, HN's guidelines recommend submitting a blog post if you want to add your own commentary to an article (or at least they used to). As someone who occasionally posts a Show HN from my own blog, and whose current career was heavily influenced by one such post making the front page a couple of years ago, I hope you'll reconsider your opposition. :-)
- ChuckMcM 13y ago
  I don't oppose it per se, it's just somewhat awkward. It is annoying when the only contribution some user on the site has is to submit their blog entries to it. For folks who are contributing members that annoyance doesn't apply. And to be perfectly clear this is just my own take on it, I also think it is awkward when someone at a meeting opens the conversation with my by pitching their company or project. Thinking about it a bit more deeply as I write this I think that is the crux of the issue. Amongst people I know, having them suggest something they have done, or are working on, sort of out of the blue feels like "catching up" whereas for people I don't know that feels more awkward. I don't have a lot of context to evaluate what they are pitching and for me, perhaps for others, it's uncomfortable.