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I just registered using Twitter and submitted a post of my own content. Seems to work, although I'm curious if it will get deleted since I'm not cool enough to associate up-and-center with the venture crowd.

Unlike HN, you must submit text in the body of a submission. Which is somewhat redundant.

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our thought process was that if you can't write something interesting about the link, even just a sentence, it's probably not worth posting

it also has the benefit of engendering more of a discussion. i'm more likely to comment on a post if the OP has already commented on it him/herself

but yes this is something we talked about internally

In my case, I just copy/pasted a sentence from the article itself, and that seems to be the case for many of the current submissiosn to USV.com.

it won't get deleted if its not spam

and everyone gets a vote up or down so the best links will rise to the top

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