danso, that's an interesting idea, but it goes against one goals stated in the site guidelines, namely, a user should not be able to give their own comment or o

danso, that's an interesting idea, but it goes against one goals stated in the site guidelines, namely, a user should not be able to give their own comment or opinion preferential placement. It's the reason why urls in text posts are not turned into links (anchors), and why we're never supposed to editorialize submission titles. The same is true for rank weighting, since text based submissions sink faster than url based submissions. Though not exactly, the guidelines roughly suggest a way around this issue; write something on your own site, and submit that instead. If the guidelines haven't changed since the last time I read them a week ago, pg essentially said to write your own blog post and submit it, or something like that. e.g. http://example.com/show-hn.html This solves all of the problems, but few people realize it. One of the tougher problems I've had on /newest with url based submissions is differentiating between spam links and people who just forgot to add the leading "Show HN:" when submitting their new site/biz. If you create a new travel, dentistry, or cooking site and forget the "Show HN:" on your submission title, there's a good chance I'll flag it as spam. I try to be lenient because I really want to avoid clobbering someone who is just starting out.