[newmac]

re: posting to github blog. It is simply to get additional stars on the repo.

It's smart if you can pull it off, but it does get a bit weird on news.yc where you expect to be going to a repo when you see github links.

The OP/Author has recycled posts from their corporate blog to their GitHub and then submitted them to YC many times in the last few weeks: For example, this post was submitted by them 2 days ago [1] and is on their blog here [2].

Their submission history shows a this is a pretty regular pattern at this point. [3].

To be honest, they've done a very impressive job of content marketing in this community in the last 6 months. I'm not sure anyone has been able to place more of their own stuff on the front page. From that perspective, they are doing something quite successfully. From the perspective of the community, it might feel like things have been a bit over manipulated at this point. I'm not sure at which point you earn a shadowban for self-promotion, but I have to wonder if it's worth the risk.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34016490

2: https://www.getlago.com/blog/post-mortem-of-our-1st-yc-start...

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=AnhTho_FR

[swyx]

> I'm not sure at which point you earn a shadowban for self-promotion, but I have to wonder if it's worth the risk.

is simply submitting your own company blogposts a basis for shadowbanning?

i understand if the titles are overly promotional but i dont think submitting your own content is - if it is of interest to the community

[newmac]

The guidelines [1] state:

>Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

>Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

>Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion.

(They solicit upvotes in their slack/twitter/etc)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[pc86]

I'm not sure how based on the title of this submission you could expect it to be any sort of code repository.

[inerte]

It really shows their Growth background :)

[AnhTho_FR]

OP here, first I'd like to apologize as our point has never been to be manipulative, but I understand from your comment that it can be perceived that way.

I'll ask the moderator to replace the link.

For the sake of sharing our thought process, not to justify ourselves:

a/ About Github links, we thought we'd start segmenting content to different audiences: via Github and via our website. Our company has several audiences (founders, engineers, product managers, finance and revenue people) and we've been willing to create interesting content for each of them. It's still in the works (as you can see, there are fewer articles on Github vs on our website, some content is duplicated, which is actually bad for our own SEO, it's far from being a very polished strategy). In no case, did we think people would think "because it's posted via github, the content would be perceived to have more authority", or "because it's a github link, with such a title, people would expect a repo". I understand it's what happened, though, hence the apologies.

b/ We did post several times. We read from [1] that is was ok to do so, and we've also seen that amazing posts which interested the community sometimes were not visible on the first attempt (example [2]). I'm fully aware from the comments that it wasn't something we should have done, I just want to share our thought process.

c/ We did invest a lot of time writing in my company, and I genuinely love writing.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what would be useful and impactful to the tech community in general. Sometimes it voluntarily points out to Lago, sometimes it's indirect, sometimes it has no link to Lago (examples 3 or 4), but I just think it might help or resonate with people. Once again, HN is a community, so I just want to abide by the rules.I thought we did. We have not been shadow banned or contacted by the mods. From the comments I understand it has been perceived as "too much" at times. I just wanted to say I genuinely do love writing and sharing, it's a mean for me to connect with people, and hopefully help a tiny bit if people resonate with it. So I'm grateful because HN has helped us connect with people who resonated with our content, and I apologize for the rest.

Will email the mods about the link just after hitting "reply"!

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170546 2: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33882590 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33641019

[newmac]

It seems like people like your content. Don't stain your rep in the community just because you want the next hit. You've had to post apologies like this before as well, so they do wear thin.

Best of luck.