Ask HN: Do you feel excluded from HN/Lobste.rs/Reddit?

Firstly is that actually true? I feel like I've seen any number of interesting posts from brand new accounts.

Secondly, if you have "spent weeks building" something it will not kill you to wait for five days to tell us about it.

> This doesn't let you share something important with many people anonymously and quickly.

Nothing springs to mind that is that important that:

• It can't wait a week or two

• Would be of no interest to conventional news organisations

What specifically did you have in mind?

Because at the end of the day, without clarification, this sounds a lot like "Spammer would like to know how avoid the spam filtering please."

So they use reputation / points / karma / invitations as a proxy for trust.

You don't have the right to demand people's attention. You have to earn that.

I don't think that is automatically true, I've seen many new accounts with a single post/comment.

Maybe what happens is that the threshold for your comment to be greyed out is probably lower for new accounts. Same for flagged post, maybe a single flag is enough to kill a submission by a new account?

invitations are for hype as much as for filtering. diminishing returns. eventually invites get to those “you” didn’t want to invite.

there are subreddits to help you boost karma to get over the karma hump. ten days is still basically nothing.

these policies help deter bad actors. but not well. bad actors can plan ahead.

feel excluded? no.

there is no ideal. there are only attempts to mitigate humanity’s negative impact. some work better than others. none work great. humans are stubborn.