Comment by PaulHoule
3 days ago
Hate to break it to you but karma doesn’t count for anything, although always spamming articles from your own blog is the rookie mistake that gets your posts to start out [dead]
Take a look at /new, choked with AI products and “Ask HN: How come Vibe Coding Doesn’t Work For Me Although It Works For Everyone Else?” Or “Show HN: I Vibe Coded Something and It Almost Works”, “Is MCP really that evil program from Tron?”, etc.
The cheat code for August 2025 is it’s not about AI and if it an AI-oriented product it doesn’t say so right out front.
Thanks for the feedback — definitely not meant as spam. It’s open source, not a commercial blog. Just wanted to surface some fresh ideas that might otherwise get missed. Really appreciate the tip!
To make it clear I'm not accusing you of spamming, but I do think the supply vs demand for AI articles right now is out of whack.
What I was trying to say about spam is that your karma doesn't count so much as being a participant in the community counts. Like, I post a lot of articles to web sites that aren't my blog so if I post a few links to my blog it is OK. Now I'm an extreme case because I post a lot of links, but somebody who has like 1/10,000 the karma I have or less could post what they like so long as they aren't posting all links to the same web site. That's the place where your participation matters -- my posts don't do any better than anyone else's.
Got it, thanks for clarifying. Makes sense that participation matters more than raw karma. I’ll keep that in mind and try to contribute more broadly, posting less about my own projects.