Is it bad form to post your own stuff to Hacker News?

http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/Is-it-bad-form-to-post-your-own-stuff-to-Hacker-News

by pitdesi • 15 years ago

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vipivip• 15 years ago

I'm fine with Ask HN/Show HN.

gsivil• 15 years ago

I am also fine with somebody that once in a while posts his own blog posts. Show HN is usually used for personal projects.

mikecane• 15 years ago

I do, but sparingly, and only when I really think it might be of interest. Mostly I post stuff from others. I didn't come here to self-promote, but I am interested in the Show HN things.

swombat• 15 years ago

I believe it's fine.

jaddison• 15 years ago

I find it curious why someone would ask this on Quora, rather than simply asking it here on HN. You would get a far more focused and realistic response - from the community itself.

orijing2• 15 years ago

It makes more sense when you see that Charlie Cheever (co-founder of Quora) asked it.

tgrass• 15 years ago

As long as you're not dishonest about it.

(That doesn't require one to admit to it, but trying to actively hide one's association I personally find insulting).

veyron• 15 years ago

Out of curiosity: http://www.quora.com/Jinghao-Yan -- what is your HN handle? I would have expected the response to give some indication that he (im guessing gender based on picture) actually used the site ...

orijing2• 15 years ago

That's me.

I'm surprised (sort of elated) that someone dug up an old answer of mine to link here. I would've linked it, but it would've seemed a little self-promotional, and strangely ironic given my answer.

jokermatt999• 15 years ago

Every single blog post? Probably not.

A blog post you really spent some time on, that's on topic and you'd like to show off? Feel free.

I think Hacker News is generally pretty accepting of folks who submit things to HN to discuss, rather than to self-promote. If you're submitting one of your blog posts every day or multiple times a day though, you're probably doing it wrong. At least, that's how I feel. I originally came here from reddit (and started Report the Spammers there) so I'm likely less tolerant of self-promotion than some people are.

Tycho• 15 years ago

I thought that was the idea. It makes for nice 'HN-exclusives' from out own community, which acts as a differentiator from other blog/news aggregation sites. If it's of the quality of article generally found on HN, then what's the worst that can happen - people either vote for it or they don't.

Is it bad form to post your own stuff to Hacker News?

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