HN Personal Blog Etiquette

The cluster discusses norms around submitting personal blogs to Hacker News, including debates on ownership, commenting on blogs vs HN, content casualness, and respecting blog owners' preferences.

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Sample Comments

morcus Apr 12, 2025 View on HN

This is someone's personal blog, and it seems like it wasn't posted by the person that owns the blog. Have the decency to just ignore and move on next time.

maxklein Feb 9, 2010 View on HN

It's your blog, but it's not your comment.

TheCowboy Oct 15, 2013 View on HN

It's just a blog post. It's not like he posted this to personally ruin anybody's day or Hacker News viewing experience.

ndjdjddjsjj Nov 27, 2024 View on HN

It is a shame that comment is not a blog post!

disambiguation May 19, 2025 View on HN

I mean it's their blog, the writing is just as much for them as it is for you.

smashing Aug 4, 2012 View on HN

The submitter's obvious intent was to get comments on the blog.

beedogs Feb 23, 2014 View on HN

Because it's their blog, not yours, and because a blog isn't a newspaper article?

perlgeek May 6, 2022 View on HN

Don't do it if you want people other than yourself visiting the blog.

drderidder Mar 26, 2014 View on HN

It's his personal blog and there's this thing called free speech.

tomlock Feb 20, 2017 View on HN

The blog post it was posted on? How posting it here would make people feel?