Tell HN: Please stop offering your services
I actually think it is fascinating to see this, and I don't think they're spam at all and suggesting they are really not nice at all.<p>HN is many things to many people don't let your particular view of what HN should be dictate the status quo.<p>> But if everyone posted "Offer HN" posts, even if they all did it just once and with a genuine desire to help, rather than a secret need to build their public profile and/or get some interesting serendipitous contacts, HN would become much less valuable.<p>That says more about you than it does about the people offering their help. How could you possibly suggest that those doing this are doing it out of a secret need to build their public profile. That's a pretty cynical worldview.<p>> To those who believe that this new "Offer HN" craze is something worth encouraging, if that's the case, please create a site that's better tailored to making those offers. Maybe you can even get pg to link to it if it's good. You'll certainly get feedback, and so on.<p>Do you feel the same about Ask HN threads ? What about rate my startup ? Aren't those people 'cynically using the business, design and cumulative knowledge of HN' for their own betterment or the building of their public profiles ?<p>> But please don't post any more "Offer HN". Despite the generous impulse behind them<p>Please do !<p>> they are basically just spam that's pushing out other more interesting stuff, at the moment.<p>Such as ?<p>Angelgate ? Blocks of Ice ? Parachutes ?<p>edit: I've posted the opposite of this article here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840143" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840143</a>