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Its very common to be downvoted or insulted because of that, im trying to get pass that problem right now
Put your contact info in the "about" section of your profile (the "email" is private). Just wanted to emphasize this as it seems to confuse a lot of people.
12. Write your own good stuff and submit that. Got a long response? Write a blog, submit it.
Those two have worked the best for me.
one of the main reasons i think people don't participate is because of the language, a lot of us are very good at reading english but are ashamed about our writing skills. Its very common to be downvoted or insulted because of that, im trying to get pass that problem right now
You shouldn't hold back your participation due to insecurities on your spelling or grammar. In my experience the only downvoted posts belong in the categories of; stupid, messaged which consist only of 'haha' or 'this'; Completely offtopic; Insulting or offensive; Incorrect.'
In this post I've probably used semi-colons incorrectly, this doesn't I will be downvoted because of it.
Related side note, I was contacted today by who I can only guess was the same person, asking how to participate on HN. I sent them an email but didn't hear back. I suppose I can assume they were busy contacting a large set of users. Not that there's any harm in that. I hope they find this list instructive!
Put your contact info in the "about" section of your profile (the "email" is private). Just wanted to emphasize this as it seems to confuse a lot of people.
Yeah, this got me until somebody found my email some other way and mentioned it was difficult. The real issue is that I basically never see my profile as somebody else would see it.
1.) Most of the time I just tell stories. I am only 20 and have relatively little experience. The only thing I can really add is a well written comment that asks a question or explains something neat. 2.)The best way to participate is to go out and do something awesome. Take something you saw on the front page and mess around with it. Maybe something will happen and you make the front page. Probably it won't, but the…
Put your contact info in the "about" section of your profile (the "email" is private). Just wanted to emphasize this as it seems to confuse a lot of people.
If the answer is yes, go ahead and read the suggestion along with the guidelines of how to act.
If the answer is no, stop reading the suggestion after the first point: "Be yourself."