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📣 chbkall

Is promoting a self-hosted event not ok by HN standards?


My wife does children's book readings with adults from a psycho-socio-emotional lens. She uses children's books as a medium to open up and hold spaces for conversations on complex themes specially mental health. I thought about helping her promote her work by sharing the links for these events on HN. One of the posts just got flagged and I was wondering if this kind of promotion is looked down by HN folx.

  👤 mindcrime Accepted Answer ✓
IME, a certain amount of self-promotion is totally accepted (even expected) at HN. But dude... you have had an account for 3 months and in that entire time ALL you've posted is self-promotional content. To the tune of about 15 submissions to your own site, in 3 months. That's 100% going to get you the wrong kind of attention.

From the HN guidelines[1]:

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.

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

👤 hammyhavoc
What's the relevance to HN? Sure, it's interesting, but what's the tech angle?