Comment by WalterGR | Hacker News Reader

Comment by WalterGR | Hacker News Reader

Out of curiosity, how do you schedule your repeated posts?

Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (https://lifehacker.com/5778831/dropping-the-drip-how-to-get-...) 7 points | Tomte | 40 minutes ago | 2 comments

Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (https://lifehacker.com/5778831/dropping-the-drip-how-to-get-...) 1 points | Tomte | 10 hours ago | 0 comments

Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (https://lifehacker.com/5778831/dropping-the-drip-how-to-get-...) 2 points | Tomte | 1 year ago | 0 comments

Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (https://lifehacker.com/5778831/dropping-the-drip-how-to-get-...) 3 points | Tomte | 2 years ago | 0 comments

Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (https://lifehacker.com/5778831/dropping-the-drip-how-to-get-...) 3 points | Tomte | 2 years ago | 0 comments

Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (https://lifehacker.com/5778831/dropping-the-drip-how-to-get-...) 3 points | Tomte | 3 years ago | 0 comments

Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (https://lifehacker.com/5778831/dropping-the-drip-how-to-get-...) 2 points | Tomte | 3 years ago | 0 comments

Dropping the Drip: How to Get Started Making Better Coffee (2011) (https://lifehacker.com/5778831/dropping-the-drip-how-to-get-...) 2 points | Tomte | 4 years ago | 1 comments

An Excel list of viable candidate articles and some ad-hoc queries (like "not been on front page and older than n months" or "older than two years") plus spontaneous submissions on a whim. It's not very structured, no definite schedule.

I had long thought to automate it a bit, but I actually feel that it might cross into "not okay", so I'd ask dang first. So far all submissions are by copying title and URL into the submission form manually in the web browser.

Thanks for the detailed answer! Going farther, why do you go to all the trouble? Is there something specific about the articles on the list that make you want to promote them?

That's a question I've wondered about too :)

Just in case anyone isn't aware, Tomte's reposts are fine, because reposts are ok if an article hasn't had significant attention in the last year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. That's one way we try to give good articles multiple cracks at the bat, to mitigate the randomness of /newest. So there's no problem (and it's definitely not a good reason to flag a submission).

Definitely gets best comments award from me!

This makes me wonder if rescheduling should be a built-in and regulated feature of hn. Producing content is work. It's pretty harsh on creators to get one lucky shot for eyes before having to resort to spamming.

Make spamming responsibly part of the system.

Fair idea, but I've already asked dang and he didn't seem interested.

>It's pretty harsh on creators to get one lucky shot for eyes before having to resort to spamming.

This is a forum whose purpose is gratifying shared intellectual curiosity, it's not an advertising platform (except for YCombinator.) If it isn't easy to maximize SEO and visibility by posting middling-quality content here, that's a feature, not a bug.

That's a pretty vague and arbitrary distinction.

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