[gnicholas]

I made one post! If I'd known that my idea was going to get so popular, and that reddit would be somewhere it might spread, I would have joined the community sooner and gotten engaged. But lacking a time machine, I just created an account and made the one post that became incredibly popular.

[AlchemistCamp]

It sounds like you weren’t a spammer but your interest really isn’t community so much using them as a marketing channel.

If you were more intrinsically interested in the community, you’d probably have signed up long ago and engaged with plenty of other people’s posts, like you did here here on HN!

[gnicholas]

Haha I signed up for HN around the same time, actually. I stayed involved in the community here because it was so welcoming! After my experiences on reddit, I was a bit gun-shy.

Is there a subreddit that has an analog of 'Show HN'? Or have HN and PH basically sucked all the oxygen out of that particular room?