Mods, is this sort of spam blast an acceptable behavior on HN now - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pkhach ?
It could've been a decent Show HN discussion, but as it stands this is nothing more than an ad for a commercial software.
It could've been a decent Show HN discussion, but as it stands this is nothing more than an ad for a commercial software.
More explicit rules or code (like limiting the frequency of submissions from a given member to the same domain name, etc) may not be necessary, as the voting system generally seems to work quite well. Or perhaps such code is already in place? which would help explain the high quality content on HN.
As ever, thank you Dan (and Scott) for maintaining this wonderful resource.
Most people respond to that explanation pretty well and HN has even gained a few excellent submitters that way. So we've learned to treat this class of users with a lighter touch than outright spammers, who mostly leave quite different fingerprints.
(p.s. thanks for the kind words!)
All tools are absolutely free and created in hope to help developers in their everyday work.
Why do you say that we promote our commercial software?
The issue isn't submitting your own stuff, it's only using HN to do that. That comes across as promotional, and HN readers don't like it because you aren't really participating in the community. Much better would be to join as a reader and general submitter, and use the site for gratifying intellectual curiosity—your own and others'. That's the primary purpose of HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The other thing you can do, when submitting your own stuff, is add text explaining how you came to work on this and what's different about it. If you say things that interest others, you'll be more likely to get a conversation. Sharing what personally interests you (not the same thing as what's in your personal interest!) is often a way to get others interested too.