Ask HN: What can we do about explosion of self promotion in HN comments
8 pointsby dominotw7 hours ago7 comments
  • jimmont5 hours ago
    Turn off the ability to add hyperlinks and use words instead? Is that what comments were intended for anyway? Seems a bit convoluted, but limiting comments, to comments, would be fairly natural. It'll get subverted anyway, but likely affects. A policy could say don't use hyperlinks, feel free to say where to go. Which would be an interesting policy to technically enforce, and still have the discretion to operate on.
  • kentich5 hours ago
    A bit of self-promotion does not hurt anybody. Stop whining and skip such comments. The assault on self-promotion on Reddit has already buried countless good projects and startups.
    • rithdmc5 hours ago
      People seem to forget this is a developer news website attached to a startup accelerator. Self promotion has long been a component of the ask page...
    • dominotw5 hours ago
      I am guessing you have one 'good project' that you vibecoded :)

      edit: Looks like you have tons of these spamming on HN

      https://tendayweekcalendar.com/

      https://codemindmap.com

      https://meetingglass.com/

      https://blackscreen1.com/

      This really sucks. Hate these so much.

      You comment history is not 'A bit of self-promotion' wtf. you do not give a shit even if ppl are calling you out for being disinginous and passing these off as something you discovered.

      • rithdmc5 hours ago
        Yikes.

        The first page of their comments go back 7 months. I don't agree that reaches the OPs bar for an 'explosion', but you do you.

  • smt887 hours ago
    I see more of these comments now but it's not enough that it's bothered me. I wonder why our experiences differ.
  • pwg7 hours ago
    Downvote and/or flag and move along.
    • dominotw7 hours ago
      But I've already read the comment at that point. I dont want to read these bait and switch comments.
      • mtmail7 hours ago
        It's a team effort, you flag some, I flag some.
        • dominotw7 hours ago
          unfortunately flag button is somewhat hidden on hn so most ppl dont go through that extra step for this to be effective
          • brudgers5 hours ago
            Maybe that’s proof-of-work?

            And probably a feature because downvoting is usually enough.

  • JohnFen7 hours ago
    Downvote and move on
  • jjgreen6 hours ago
    Set RoboDogs on the swine. But a RoboDog needs a hostile and violent OS, checkout this shitty project I vibecoded on GitHub ....
  • causalzap7 hours ago
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