[reikonomusha]

HN has traditionally been full of self-promotion, in both submitted links and especially in comments (e.g., lots of "disclosure, I made X" or "shameless plug, I made X" or ...). It's not necessarily a bad thing since the community ultimately has control over what gets seen on top. And additionally sometimes you are your only advertiser.

(In this very comments page, people are talking about their own code they wrote with links to it, etc.)

[joeyspn]

> HN has traditionally been full of self-promotion...

Yes, but there are rules, and we all should play by the same rules. HNs rules state that if your story got significant attention recently (this story was 1st six months ago) it'll be killed as dupe. But the user has been sending it w/o stop even after that...

>Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[tobltobs]

"significant attention" is of course hard to define, but a max. of 3 scores does not count as significant attention in any book I know.

[dang]

But 300 does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914045.

[tobltobs]

> got significant attention recently ...

I did not include the one submission with >300 because 200 days is not "recently" imho.

[dang]

I see. But for HN the dispositive time window is a year, as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. I don't know when pg came up with that but it was long before I started working on HN.

[jnet]

I think that is a very good thing, I want to know about these useful projects