Is it ok so long as you also comment on other things? Eg, I’ve authored all but one of my submissions, but I comment semi regularly on all sorts of stuff not submitted by me. A quick glance at iamwil’s comment history seems to show comments on non-authored posts too. IMO that should be ok, but the rules don’t make it clear.
I don’t know either and I don’t even have an opinion. Maybe @pushcx could clarify whether that 1/4 rule of thumb applies to stories and comments in the aggregate or separately.
I expect less than a quarter of comments to be on one’s own stories, as well. Marketers don’t want to participate in the community because writing substantive comments takes a significant amount of time, they want to paste links (ideally, only their own) and zip through their checklist of “traffic sources”. The guideline is about participating. (cc @iamwil)
@iamwil of the last 20 stories you’ve submitted, you’ve authored all but 6. Quoting https://lobste.rs/about:
Sure, I can submit more of what I’m reading.
Is it ok so long as you also comment on other things? Eg, I’ve authored all but one of my submissions, but I comment semi regularly on all sorts of stuff not submitted by me. A quick glance at iamwil’s comment history seems to show comments on non-authored posts too. IMO that should be ok, but the rules don’t make it clear.
I don’t know either and I don’t even have an opinion. Maybe @pushcx could clarify whether that 1/4 rule of thumb applies to stories and comments in the aggregate or separately.
I expect less than a quarter of comments to be on one’s own stories, as well. Marketers don’t want to participate in the community because writing substantive comments takes a significant amount of time, they want to paste links (ideally, only their own) and zip through their checklist of “traffic sources”. The guideline is about participating. (cc @iamwil)