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dang, Most people don't know that the rank of text-based submissions decays faster than url-based submissions, so by using the wrong type of submission on your
by jcr 12y ago
dang, Most people don't know that the rank of text-based submissions
decays faster than url-based submissions, so by using the wrong type
of submission on your "Show HN" you shoot yourself in the foot by using
a text-based submission. This should be noted in the guidelines or
adjusted in the code.
Also, I'd add a suggestion to the guidelines for "Show HN" submissions
to use a landing page like "http://example.org/show-hn.html" http://example.org/show-hn.html" when
appropriate so the submitter can ask for specific types of help or
feedback. This solves the top-comment problem mentioned by danso, and
also solves the text-based submission problem.
All in all, "Show HN" is an excellent addition. Thank you.
EDIT: The new code is actually finding the text-based submissions as
well as the url-based submissions, but at first I thought it was
missing the text-based ones.
- dang 12y agoYes, it's on our list to fix this, probably by just exempting Show HN posts from the url-less penalty.