Hacker News Etiquette

I'm wondering about the Hacker News Etiquette… for example, is it considered inappropriate to submit one's own content?

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I did submit articles from my own blog a couple times, when I thought they were both interesting and good enough to provide for a nice discussion.

dwc 15y ago ↗

It should be obvious there's a wide range here. On one end there's content that absolutely belongs on HN but nobody would ever find unless its self posted (the non-regular blogger who writes a great essay). At the other end is someone just trying to promote their latest blog post, even though their last 40 posts to HN didn't get any love.

How to get the good end only?

rbanffy 15y ago ↗

> How to get the good end only?

If you genuinely believe your blog post is HN worthy, post it. If HN deems it HN-worthy, it'll end up on the home page and, hopefully, spark a good discussion.

Unfortunately, HN doesn't always agree with us on what is HN-worthy ;-) but that's what life in a community looks like.

nbpoole 15y ago ↗

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

martinpannier 15y ago ↗

Thanks. However, I've found the community to be sensitive at times and wanted to know if there were additional implicit rules that are to be respected.

alain94040 15y ago ↗

I'd find it stupid to write a great piece that people on HN really would love, and hopelessly wait for someone else to discover it for you.

Now, the trick is in being sure that it's a great piece for HN. Delusion is by definition hard to detect on yourself :-)

martinpannier 15y ago ↗

Care to tell me what you think of this post then? ;)

http://journal.martinpannier.fr/the-267-qualities-all-entrep...

ig1 15y ago ↗

No, plenty of people do it (myself included), just don't spam and be a HN'er of good standing (i.e. posting your own articles shouldn't be your only activity here)/

Mz 15y ago ↗

My opinion: It's tricky to submit your own content here. It's certainly not forbidden but it doesn't always go over well. I completely suck at starting conversations (not just here, it's a long-standing personal issue) and I am still trying to observe and learn and figure out what works here. I think the trick is that it needs to serve the needs of the community at least as much as it serves your own need for self-promotion. If it clearly serves your needs/ego far more than the HN community, people here generally won't hesitate to let you know how they feel about that.