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Why? OP gave you a list and a fairly non bias summary for each. Besides, using their site is completely optional and based on volunteerism. If you think it was

Why? OP gave you a list and a fairly non bias summary for each. Besides, using their site is completely optional and based on volunteerism. If you think it was of poor character, don't use their site. Is mentioning they run the site necessary? Absolutely not IMO.

dsowers 13y ago
Yeah, this isn't reddit. We don't care if people are trying to promote their work on this site. We all have projects that need promotion.
- dopamean 13y ago
  Also, he hardly even promoted it... "relatively new, easy submission." Pretty tame to me.
  - nulagrithom 13y ago
    I thought it was obvious at first glance he'd be promoting his own site anyway; his username is 'sideproject'. Personally I think it beats Show HN: Sideprojectors, which was his alternative. I saved the list in my notes. Thread was useful to me and good advertising for him. Win-Win.
    - tokenizer 13y ago
      Exactly. No need to complain about win-win scenarios that aren't coercive.
      - nanok 13y ago
        Agreed, I think it's a great way to market your service - with a list of alternatives included.
acheron 13y ago
"biased". The word you want is "non-biased". I literally* don't understand how people mess this up. If you were talking about a list of projects that had not yet been submitted to one of those lists, would you say they are "non-submit"? No, obviously you would say "non-submitted". If you were talking about books that had been printed by a publisher, would you say they are "publish"? No, you would say "published", because it's a past participle, and that is how we say past participles in English. This is not a prescriptive/descriptive thing: every English speaker over the age of 5 talks this way. But for some reason "bias", a completely normal verb, causes people to throw out everything they know about English. So, stop it. /rant * Yes, literally.
- notthatimbias 13y ago
  Just to help you literally understand: People get this wrong because with many accents (most American regions among them) the "ed" in "biased" is almost silent when spoken aloud at conversational tempo.
  - serichsen 13y ago
    That is perhaps an excuse for people whose lips move when they are reading.
    - ClayFerguson 13y ago
      I consider lip-movement during reading a mental disorder. It means your cerebral cortex is connected to your motor cortex in a flawed way. It's a significant 'brain wiring' issue, and would severely limit how fast one can read as well. It's not as bad as "mouth breathers" but close.
- bdcravens 13y ago
  As long as we're being pedantic, in most cases, you'd use "unbiased", not "non-biased".

dsowers 13y ago

Yeah, this isn't reddit. We don't care if people are trying to promote their work on this site. We all have projects that need promotion.

dopamean 13y ago
Also, he hardly even promoted it... "relatively new, easy submission." Pretty tame to me.
- nulagrithom 13y ago
  I thought it was obvious at first glance he'd be promoting his own site anyway; his username is 'sideproject'. Personally I think it beats Show HN: Sideprojectors, which was his alternative. I saved the list in my notes. Thread was useful to me and good advertising for him. Win-Win.
  - tokenizer 13y ago
    Exactly. No need to complain about win-win scenarios that aren't coercive.
    - nanok 13y ago
      Agreed, I think it's a great way to market your service - with a list of alternatives included.

acheron 13y ago

"biased". The word you want is "non-biased". I literally* don't understand how people mess this up. If you were talking about a list of projects that had not yet been submitted to one of those lists, would you say they are "non-submit"? No, obviously you would say "non-submitted". If you were talking about books that had been printed by a publisher, would you say they are "publish"? No, you would say "published", because it's a past participle, and that is how we say past participles in English. This is not a prescriptive/descriptive thing: every English speaker over the age of 5 talks this way. But for some reason "bias", a completely normal verb, causes people to throw out everything they know about English. So, stop it. /rant * Yes, literally.

notthatimbias 13y ago
Just to help you literally understand: People get this wrong because with many accents (most American regions among them) the "ed" in "biased" is almost silent when spoken aloud at conversational tempo.
- serichsen 13y ago
  That is perhaps an excuse for people whose lips move when they are reading.
  - ClayFerguson 13y ago
    I consider lip-movement during reading a mental disorder. It means your cerebral cortex is connected to your motor cortex in a flawed way. It's a significant 'brain wiring' issue, and would severely limit how fast one can read as well. It's not as bad as "mouth breathers" but close.
bdcravens 13y ago
As long as we're being pedantic, in most cases, you'd use "unbiased", not "non-biased".