just for the record, i have been subbed to hacker news for awhile -- just checked, i formally joined 168 days ago -- but i had been reading hacker news for a ye

just for the record, i have been subbed to hacker news for awhile -- just checked, i formally joined 168 days ago -- but i had been reading hacker news for a year or more before i guilted myself into joining and that was just so i could respond to something i had read. only recently have i stepped up to the plate and started posting links to articles i come across in my daily news dredge and if and when appropriate, made comments on news items that piqued my interest. but it is in search of your kind of posts that i come to a news aggregation site like hn because i do want to see what the comments are -- they act like a reality check -- so please, don't despair. i am sure there are a lot of people like me who check the "new" section and are able to discover what you have posted before it gets locked. and now you have me thinking that probably most of the stuff i post, get nixed too. cuz only once did i notice something i posted show up in the first 5 pages, but it like #60 and it only got that far because the article was being trashed. so you go me wondering if i should just go back to being a free-rider. posting and commenting on hn takes a lot of time and effort, probably better spent elsewhere.