Suggest HN:submission page site focus reminder

8 points by pbhjpbhj ↗ HN
We're getting a lot of submissions that seem to me as not especially focussed and more suited to a general purpose social site.

I'm thinking that perhaps someone is submitting these as part of a "we submit your story" type service?

If not then perhaps, because there are several such stories on the HN site already people are simply not bothering to read the submission guidelines. As an aide-memoire perhaps a brief synopsis of the submissions guidelines could be added to get people to think whether this is the appropriate place for their post.

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As a lurker and as someone who has never submitted to HN I can say that I was unaware that guidelines even existed. Yeah, I see them now at the bottom of the footer but I agree that adding, at the very least, a visible link on the submit page or as you suggested a summary could only be a good thing.