When it's your own project, and you keep linking to it in many unrelated threads, the assumption is going to be that you're doing it for promotion. (That's how it looked to me, at least, and I tend to be a lot more lenient about this than the median HN reader.)
Not only that but it looks like your account has been using HN primarily to promote your own work (this project and others), which is something that the site guidelines explicitly ask users not to do: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's nothing wrong with sharing your work on HN—that's an important part of what the site is for! But it should be part of an unpredictable mix of topics. When people are only interested in their own stuff, that's not the kind of interest we're shooting for here—that's using HN as a promotional target and really not in the intended spirit of the site. As the guideline says, we want people to share in the spirit of curiosity, not promotion, and that would normally include a range of unrelated/interesting things, not just one's own.
Gotcha! I actually use HN everyday - not much of a commenter though. Perhaps that's why it came across as a one sided thing. Perhaps I should be more active in the comments as well... Thank you for the feedback!
dang|2 years ago
Not only that but it looks like your account has been using HN primarily to promote your own work (this project and others), which is something that the site guidelines explicitly ask users not to do: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's nothing wrong with sharing your work on HN—that's an important part of what the site is for! But it should be part of an unpredictable mix of topics. When people are only interested in their own stuff, that's not the kind of interest we're shooting for here—that's using HN as a promotional target and really not in the intended spirit of the site. As the guideline says, we want people to share in the spirit of curiosity, not promotion, and that would normally include a range of unrelated/interesting things, not just one's own.
phemartin|2 years ago