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.HN is many things to many people don't let your particular view of what HN should be dictate the status quo.> 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.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.> 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.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 ?> But please don't post any more "Offer HN". Despite the generous impulse behind themPlease do !> they are basically just spam that's pushing out other more interesting stuff, at the moment.Such as ?Angelgate ? Blocks of Ice ? Parachutes ?edit: I've posted the opposite of this article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840143