Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles on GitHub?

Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles... by benatkin on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:02PM (#23490877)

This felt negative so I flagged it. I think this from HN guidelines is related:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work."

I get that you probably mean well, and aren't personally attacking anyone, but this post doesn't seem in line with the goals of HN.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles... by ayakura on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:13PM (#23490978)

I'll chip in because the OP's sentiment is fairly understandable, as there's no concrete metric that people use to quantify how "useful" one's tagline is on Github.

Also, you did mention that OP isn't attacking anyone, so I don't understand the purpose of flagging - even though the post may "seem" negative. I personally feel it's not.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles... by benatkin on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:44PM (#23491369)

That isn't why I flagged it. I flagged it as a judgment call.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about the self-promotion titles... by bor100003 on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:29AM (#23496339)

I understand your point, cannot edit the "stupid" word.

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