Show HN: Open-source Chrome extension for internet transparency and data privacy • Hacker News Board

Getting friends to do promotional votes and comments isn't ok on HN. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. We ban sites and accounts for doing this, so please don't. Also, it's usually obvious to the HN community when this is happening, and they consider it spamming.

We want users to upvote submissions that they personally find intellectually interesting, not because they or their friends have something to promote.

Re: Show HN: Open-source Chrome extension for internet transparency and data privacy

#18

Post by inpooling » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:15 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #17

Getting friends to do promotional votes and comments isn't ok on HN. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html . We ban sites and accounts for doing this, so please don't. Also, it's usually obvious to the HN community when this is happening, and they consider it spamming. We want users to upvote submissions that they personally find intellectually interesting, not because they or their friends ha…

Hi. Thanks for letting me know about this. Indeed, I told my developer friends to check out our open source project and give us an upvote if they liked it. Ok. Now I know that it is not allowed! Then please make a banner on the submit form.

A feedback for HN: if you are looking for stories, then delete show HN category. There is no story in what I want to show. It's simply the project that I wanted more developers to know. That's why I put in the "Show HN" category -> to show to HN. If you don't want people to show the projects, why did you have this category?? Very contradictory.

Also please remember that - No algorithms are perfect, neither are human's judgements!

Re: Show HN: Open-source Chrome extension for internet transparency and data privacy

#19

Post by dang » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:19 PM UTC

inpooling wrote: post #18

dang wrote: post #17

Getting friends to do promotional votes and comments isn't ok on HN. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html . We ban sites and accounts for doing this, so please don't. Also, it's usually obvious to the HN community when this is happening, and they consider it spamming. We want users to upvote submissions that they personally find intellectually interesting, not because they or their friends ha…

Hi. Thanks for letting me know about this. Indeed, I told my developer friends to check out our open source project and give us an upvote if they liked it. Ok. Now I know that it is not allowed! Then please make a banner on the submit form. A feedback for HN: if you are looking for stories, then delete show HN category. There is no story in what I want to show. It's simply the project that I wanted more developers to…

"Stories" in this context is just a synonym for submissions, i.e. top level posts as opposed to comments. I've edited my comment above to use the other word.

Re: Show HN: Open-source Chrome extension for internet transparency and data privacy

#20

Post by inpooling » Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 6:35 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #19

inpooling wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi. Thanks for letting me know about this. Indeed, I told my developer friends to check out our open source project and give us an upvote if they liked it. Ok. Now I know that it is not allowed! Then please make a banner on the submit form. A feedback for HN: if you are looking for stories, then delete show HN category. There is no story in what I want to show. It's simply the project that I wanted more developers to…

"Stories" in this context is just a synonym for submissions, i.e. top level posts as opposed to comments. I've edited my comment above to use the other word.

That's fair. Since I have asked friends to upvote, so I have nothing to argue about the penalty. The rule is the rule.

Questions: I only have 2 karma, will HN prioritize posts posted by people with more karmas - with the assumption that the posts have similar "interesting" level of content? If I want to resubmit, will I still get penalty for my github link?