If you want to demo your project to the HN community you can just email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and we'll give you feedback, both on your project (well, our perception of it) and your post. We do this multiple times per day.
I don't see what the grounds for complaint is here.
Posts like that - i.e., meta discussion, or posting on HN to ask or state something about HN - are best avoided.
These things are easy enough to find out via HN Search or Google or minimaxir’s unofficial documentation, and failing that, anyone can email us and we usually reply quickly.
It’s important that posts on HN have some combination of thought, effort and substance to them.
Please don't comment like this. It's not a substantive contribution to the discussion to tell us that you stopped reading the article, and it's generally fulmination or curmudgeonliness or a shallow dismissal or something else that's against the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't comment like this here. HN is a text-only discussion forum where people come together to discuss topics that gratify intellectual curiosity. This place can only work if people respect and follow the guidelines, and it's fine for users to politely point out to each other how they can be doing better – precisely so they don't have to get the moderators involved.
This comment comes across as mean-spirited. It's not cool to open with an apology then proceed to put out up to 7 paragraphs of eloquently-worded personal attack.
HN is only a place where people want to participate because this kind of thing is not accepted here. Please show you respect the guidelines and care about the health of the community if you want to participate here.
Please don't fulminate or post flame bait on HN. This low-effort comment started just the kind of flamewar we're trying to avoid on HN. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please don't post dunks like this here. HN is for curious conversation and the guidelines ask us to be kind. We have no idea whether the thing they had in mind when they asked that question 8 years ago is relevant to what they think about the current topic. You could ask them rather than piling on like this.
It's not OK on HN to use quotation marks to falsely attribute a quote or position to another user. Please don't do this again here, and please make an effort to observe the guidelines, which start with being kind and conversing curiously.
WTF? This is not an acceptable comment on HN, no matter who or what you're replying to. We've had to ask you before to follow the guidelines. We have to ban accounts that comment like this repeatedly. Please remind yourself of the guidelines and make an effort to observe them if you want to keep participating here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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