Comment on Ask HN: Why was my previous submission dead on arrival?Comments−rada16yIt opens with a long story about a couple of your friends who've been kicked off a TV show. Down the line you draw some generic internet-related conclusions but your readers probably didn't get that far before flagging it as off-topic.http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html−someone_hereOP16yI didn't write it but I thought it was interesting. Also, people read most of the article in the 500ms it took to submit? I don't think so.
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It opens with a long story about a couple of your friends who've been kicked off a TV show. Down the line you draw some generic internet-related conclusions but your readers probably didn't get that far before flagging it as off-topic.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't write it but I thought it was interesting. Also, people read most of the article in the 500ms it took to submit? I don't think so.