Ask HN: Is promoting a self-hosted event not ok by HN standards?

1 pointsposted 20 hours ago
by chbkall

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4 Comments

mindcrime

20 hours ago

IME, a certain amount of self-promotion is totally accepted (even expected) at HN. But dude... you have had an account for 3 months and in that entire time ALL you've posted is self-promotional content. To the tune of about 15 submissions to your own site, in 3 months. That's 100% going to get you the wrong kind of attention.

From the HN guidelines[1]:

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

chbkall

15 hours ago

I have been on HN for around 5 years or more now. I had created this account for mostly publishing about this. I had seen accounts of other users do this and thought this was okay. I wasn't aware of the guidelines around this. Thank you for sharing. I will be more mindful about this in the future.

hammyhavoc

18 hours ago

What's the relevance to HN? Sure, it's interesting, but what's the tech angle?

chbkall

15 hours ago

Oh, I had thought that both tech and non-tech news and articles are shared on the platform.