| > Why should I not be able to post? It will be posted sometime in the next 2 hours anyways. This shows a sense of entitlement that not only goes against the spirit of the community but also against the published guidelines as others have mentioned. Here's a list of some guidelines you've either ignored or are ignorant of: > If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
('what to expect' at CES isn't exactly intellectually gratifying, and certainly not two stories about the exact same topic within minutes of each other) > If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway.
(Almost every link you submitted) > If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
(Such as "10 Transportation Trends That Rocked 2010 | Autopia | Wired.com") > Please don't submit so many links at once that the new page is dominated by your submissions.
(Obvious) If you're unsure about what is expected of a community, there's a couple of approaches you might adopt. You can bombard the community with a ton of questions which, depending on the community, many not go over well... like your "Ask HN" about how to search HN -- is it really too difficult to find the "Search" link on the footer of every page? Or you can adopt the age-old tradition called lurking. |