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Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

You had a big Show HN with this project a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29270909, as well as 15 other submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=okozzie.

Beyond that, you have posted it dozens of additional times and then deleted it. That's abusive. It's also against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Note this guideline as well: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." You've been breaking that one badly too.

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It's a huge update each time! This is completely different to the last and I posted this to show the new landing page...

99% of the discussion is focused on the landing page

That argument might hold some water if you hadn't been blatantly abusing the submission system and violating the site guidelines.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: "If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok." Emphasis added.

From both https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't delete and repost. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place."

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

For the delete and repost, I did not read that guideline so I apologise for that.

However, the discussion itself is something new to Hacker News - is there a way to have it back up please? 99% of the comments are about this form of web design vs professionalism

That argument might hold water if you hadn't been using HN exclusively to promote your own stuff. That's not what HN is supposed to be for, as the guidelines make clear.

If you care about interesting discussions, the way to show that is to contribute stories that are just interesting without having any promotional angle. If you do that, then it's great to share your own stuff occasionally as part of the mix. That's the way to be a good community contributor.

I don't mean to be mean, but it feels pretty important to reiterate the values of the site.

It doesn't seem fair to enforce it on this post in particular.

The discussion is primarily focused on unprofessionalism in design.

Why can you not put this post back up? I understand the other posts being argued as purely self promotion, but this is a completely new discussion where the majority of the talking points are outside the product

You only made the front page with this post because you abused the deletion system badly, along with using a baity title. I was willing to let the latter pass when I first saw it, because it was also fun, but when I saw that you'd posted your site and then deleted it over 30 times—that's outrageous. The community expects us not to allow such manipulation.

Lots of people make fun websites and post them here without resorting to such tricks. I don't think it would be fair to those users to let you get away with breaking the rules this badly.

I don't think this is so hard to understand? You're totally welcome in this community if you want to be a good community member along with everyone else. Above all, that means using it for curiosity, not just as a promotional channel.

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