[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?