Show HN: Show HN

Edit: Clicking on the YC logo from the guidelines brings up a 404.

Allow me to emphasize something from the Show HN Guidelines[1]:

> Be respectful. Anyone sharing creative work is making a contribution, however modest.

> Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine.

> Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

> When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But in that case, consider saying nothing.

The comments section of Show HN posts are not an invitation for you to tear someone apart for your own self-aggrandizing glory. If you want to be helpful, be constructive. If you don't want to be helpful, don't bother.

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

Sometimes the submitters use a text post, which I imagine they do because they want to give some context to the project that may not be ideal to present prominently on a landing page, but which likely cuts down on click-throughs (because of the slight inconvenience of users having to find the link to click through to in the text post).

Maybe it's worth having a post-type...for submitters only...in which the submitter gets first say and a click-through title? And those who use it for non-Show-HN submissions are mercilessly flagged to oblivion? Sometimes the submitter's first-comments are buried depending on the type of discussions that occur.