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Agreed, it sounded like the Atlantic guy banned eons ago was actually a good community member. At some point the Reddit restriction of "submit any content but y
by brokentone 13y ago
Agreed, it sounded like the Atlantic guy banned eons ago was actually a good community member. At some point the Reddit restriction of "submit any content but your own" feels very artificial.
- nonotthatone 13y ago> submit any content but your own Plenty of people submit their own content. In fact, it's encouraged. You have reddit confused with digg, somehow.
- Uperte 13y ago"Feel free to post links to your own content (within reason). But if that's all you ever post, and it always seems to get voted down, take a good hard look in the mirror — you just might be a spammer. A widely used rule of thumb is the 9:1 ratio, i.e. only 1 out of every 10 of your submissions should be your own content." From reddiquette.
- minimaxir 13y agoIt's definitely not encouraged on Reddit, one of the old notes of Redditquite is "if more than 10% of what you submit is your personal content, then you're probably a spammer." Once, someone submitted one of my blog posts about a rather interesting bug in a AAA game to /r/programming. Over 1,000 net score. Out of curiosity, I submitted the same post myself to /r/games. -7 score.
- skeletonjelly 13y agoYour last example could be bad timing and/or the r/games audience not caring about programming etc
- minimaxir 13y agoTrue, although once a credible news source made a post with similar, it hit the front page of /r/games quickly.
- zevyoura 13y agoActually, Reddit's FAQ[1] says: > If over 10% of your submissions are your own site/content, you're almost certainly a spammer. [1] http://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_what_constitutes_spam.3F http://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_what_constitutes_spam.3F
- alayne 13y agoYour own content != be a corporate shill / spammer.
- ggchappell 13y agoI'd go further and say it's misguided. I'd like to think that a single account's submissions can be thought of as a "channel", as on YouTube.
- davidw 13y agoI've always found that attitude of not promoting your own stuff annoying. If you took the time to write it and think about it, you should be proud of it! If you're just spamming, people will see it and vote accordingly.
- tptacek 13y agoSubmitting your own stuff is fine. It's when you mechanically submit everything that appears on your site that we start having problems.
- davidw 13y agoSure, and I think the difference is pretty clear to most reasonable people. What I take issue with is the idea that self-promotion is "bad".
- speeder 13y agoExcept HN blocks that I guess... At least I try to always make good submissions, and usually HN only let me submit twice every month...
- dfc 13y agoI'm curious about the submission throttling that you have experienced. You have 4 submissions from the last month (last 30 days) and 9 submissions for the two previous months. What is being throttled?
- speeder 13y agoI don't know, but I rarely can submit new stuff... When I joined HN I submitted a lot, but suddenly I could not submit for two weeks, then sometimes I can submit twice or three times in a week, and then have to wait two weeks again...
- diminoten 13y agocurious why, though. If it's good, it'll be pushed upwards. If it's not it won't be. Why does it matter who does the submitting?
- Pxtl 13y agoExactly. A part of me was kind of sad that Digg's final phase of being a direct aggregator of news without "submission" but instead sucking the news straight from RSS feeds and pumping it into the hivemind upvote/downvote system... that this system tanked so badly and was so poorly done. Requiring that the "submitter" be some legitimate member of the community seems forced, as long as it's not high-frequency spam.