Ask HN:Do you tailor your content specifically for Hacker News?

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A couple years ago I ran a handful of mildly popular blogs and we would tailor our content specifically for a social news site like Digg or even target content at Twitter users.

Many of the people here have their own blogs and many frequent the HN front page. I was just wondering how many of you tailor your articles for Hacker News?

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The content I post to my blog is certainly influenced by the interests of my readership; and HN readers (along with reddit readers and FreeBSD developers and tarsnap users) form part of that.

I wouldn't say that I tailor articles for HN -- certainly that is not my intention -- but at the same time I can't deny that there is some influence there.

I've had blog posts that are a direct result of my interactions with several HN members. HN is a great catalyst for debates. Thus, sometimes I write what I write because of an idea picked up from a discussion that originated here. However, I wouldn't say I'm tailoring my content for HN either, since, generally, I write so that others (i.e. people outside this community) can at least understand what's the topic at hand and its repercussions.

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