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This is a fine idea, but could possibly end up lowering quality of topics on HN. By making it all too easy to submit stories, quality may be endangered in a lon
by dexen 17y ago
This is a fine idea, but could possibly end up lowering quality of topics on HN. By making it all too easy to submit stories, quality may be endangered in a longer run due to rapid flood of links.
But then again, perhaps the voting system can hold its own well against that.
- iamwil 17y agoActually, one can probably write a wordpress plugin that auto-submits a post own your own blog to HN, and then adds a "comments" link at the end of the post to point to the HN page containing your submitted link--effectively using every HN page as your comments page. pg can probably filter based on repeated submissions from the same IP to prevent this type of abuse though.