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Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by Arjuna »

rickhanlonii wrote: post #15

Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features. 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 somet…

I agree 100%.

In addition, a friendly reminder to us all...

When you see a Show HN, assume that whoever created it, perhaps not unlike you, is working to drive his or her dreams into existence. Each post represents a dream, a personal story, a literal piece of their Life.

For many of us, perhaps the majority of us, that means grinding at the mine during the day, returning home after perhaps a long commute, spending time with and cooking for our family, our significant other, etc... then, clocking back in at 9:00pm or 10:00pm to bring it for the next several, precious hours, working to make the dream real... then catching some sleep, waking up and turning around and dropping the hammer all over again.

It's just something to remember as you comment to someone about their work.

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by danbucholtz »

I do worry that start-ups will now get lost in the fray or people will ignore the section :-/

In the mean time, I'd love to hear some feedback on my start-up: www.gopaperbox.com

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by dang »

001sky wrote: post #65
rickhanlonii wrote: post #15

Great work! I love when organic user behaviors are recognized and made first class features. 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 somet…

Maybe the guidelines should be stickied up top, along with the current explanation text, at least while this gets going! https://news.ycombinator.com/show =/= https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html edit: they are, but just not called out as such. [Show HN] is for something you've made that other people can play with. The newest Show HNs are listed [here]. (eg clicking the first hyperlink will bring them up)

Yes, we clearly need to make those more prominent.

Edit: we changed it to emphasize the Show HN guidelines more.

Edit 2: I think we'll also write something much more detailed about the kind of discussions we want in Show HN threads: discussions that foster further creativity. Perhaps we'll put it up on the YC blog and then have a new thread about all this, once the dust settles from the first Show HN carnival.

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by jcr »

dang, Most people don't know that the rank of text-based submissions decays faster than url-based submissions, so by using the wrong type of submission on your "Show HN" you shoot yourself in the foot by using a text-based submission. This should be noted in the guidelines or adjusted in the code.

Also, I'd add a suggestion to the guidelines for "Show HN" submissions to use a landing page like "http://example.org/show-hn.html" when appropriate so the submitter can ask for specific types of help or feedback. This solves the top-comment problem mentioned by danso, and also solves the text-based submission problem.

All in all, "Show HN" is an excellent addition. Thank you.

EDIT: The new code is actually finding the text-based submissions as well as the url-based submissions, but at first I thought it was missing the text-based ones.

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by dang »

jcr wrote: post #86

dang, Most people don't know that the rank of text-based submissions decays faster than url-based submissions, so by using the wrong type of submission on your "Show HN" you shoot yourself in the foot by using a text-based submission. This should be noted in the guidelines or adjusted in the code. Also, I'd add a suggestion to the guidelines for "Show HN" submissions to use a landing page like " http://example.org/sh…

Yes, it's on our list to fix this, probably by just exempting Show HN posts from the url-less penalty.

Re: Show HN: Show HN

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Post by [deleted] »

waterside81 wrote: post #49
nostrademons wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dropbox did too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 The "Show HN" convention hadn't been invented at that point, though.

The comments on this post are perfect examples of why it's hard to predict what's going to take off and what won't. And also why it's sometimes a good idea to just give people the benefit of doubt.

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