First of all, I don't have a 'cause' or agenda. I found some tips in this article useful and hence submitted it. That's all. Content quality is subjective, some hate it and some like it. I have no control over this and neither do I have a problem with negative comments ON the article itself. What I dislike are personal attacks like this.

I don't even know who you are so I'm not sure why you are targeting me. Had a bad day?

Are you suggesting that top ten lists are inherently flawed? Should all list posts NOT ever be submitted to Hacker News? Or are you suggesting that I shouldn't be allowed to participate in this community because everything I share is more or less rubbish?

I joined this community 602 days ago. That's 1 year and eight months ago. I'm not a fly-by-night spammer. Everyone can see the stories I submit to verify this.

Your obvious condescension is quite unnecessary. And frankly, I find it quite insulting. I don't have a devious plan to destroy Hacker News so maybe you should chill out a bit.

This article was quite good, yes. SmashingMag makes Top 10 lists that are genuinely interesting: not always, but often.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be insulting. I just noticed that you've had other run ins submitting digg like stuff. But the other readers have spoken, you win; I lose.

I'm not looking to 'win'. It doesn't give me any satisfaction. Just trying to understand your antagonism towards me, a stranger who just happens to ALSO be a digg user (something you seem to consider as an inherently inferior sub-species of internet people).

Hacker News is not Digg and therein lies its appeal. I love the intelligent comments here and the stories are terrific. So don't think for a second that I'm trying to 'ruin' the community by submitting digg-like content (whatever that is).

In any case, its a SOCIAL news site. Let the community sort it out with editorial votes. Wisdom of the crowds, yes?

There's no way I'm going to make everyone happy with my submissions. It's impossible. As long as its really interesting to me, doesn't violate TOS, isn't spam and falls within the general topical focus/interest of Hacker News readers, I'm going to make use of my right to contribute to the community.

I wish something like this won't happen again. If you want to continue this off-topic discussion and thoroughly exhaust your frustration, feel free to rant at me in private. My email is in my profile. Cheers.

Wait, who's ranting?

Anyways...no frustration on my part (what about you?). I was just too trigger happy from the recent spam HN has been getting. That's all. Apologies man.

But it's not a Top Ten list. It's a Ten list. Those are fine.

I think that proclaiming the "top anything" is pretty damn annoying, but this isn't that. It's more of a "Here! We thought of some neat ideas you might like!" And I liked a good four or five of the tips.

Would you have preferred that it be submitted with a different title? Title is subjective.

the content is more important than the format. I thought the content was pretty solid.