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Comment by draazon | Hacker News Reader

Overcomplicated lighting design

You might want to make it clearer you are OP and describing your work, I think some people might be reading this as dismissive criticism.

(Also, I don't think you can do it by edit, but next time note that you can submit both a URL and some accompanying text.)

Thanks, that's helpful - I am indeed the OP, and the "overcomplicated" part was intended as tongue-in-cheek self-criticism!

Yeah, I got it, but it might take a Brit or German! Unfortunately there are dismissive third-party comments like that sometimes, and seeing it grey (at the time) I almost voted down myself too, just then thought I recognised your username and double-checked.

One other thought actually - if you can still edit the title, you might get more attention from 'Show HN: The Danglepoise', since then people will know the author is around for discussion. Just anecdotally I would guess Show HNs tend to have more engagement/votes on average.

Anyway, nice project :)

I think that technically, as a blog post, this wouldn't be eligible for Show HN?

True, didn't really realise that actually, just read the rules. I'm sure I've seen similar as Show HNs.. but I guess maybe they had a GitHub project or whatever that tilts the scale.

>I think some people might be reading this as dismissive criticism.

This is exactly what I thought. I downvoted (now removed) thinking that it was a random passerby being dismissive.

Upvoted it purely to ensure the British self-deprecation is not mistakenly penalised.

Edit: cool project, well done!

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