I want to show the cli tool I built to the world. How?
3 points by vrypan
3 points by vrypan
I want to show the world what I built. I think it's a really neat, well-thought cli tool that other users would find useful.
But almost every platform (including lobsters) has a policy against posting links to one's own work. I know, I know, you can, if it's just a percentage of your contributions. But I'm not a regular contributor to any of these platforms. Finding cool links and new tools is not my skill.
So, what's the right way to do it? Is there a place where people share the stuff they built (and yes, it will be abused), but cooll-stuff scouters keep an eye on, to find and post using (and helping) their platform karma/points/score?
I think it’s idiotic that lobsters penalizes showing one's own work. Some people are so rabidly against spam that they’re confusing it with the entirely normal practice of telling your community what you’ve accomplished.
It's a mixed question whether it is correct that Lobsters is a coherent whole in terms of attitude to it; I think the official stance doesn't (subject to presence of other engagement) then there are people who flag unreasonably (although this is not the only case of unreasonable flagging), then there are people who will probably upvote.
By the way, «what are you doing this week/weekend» threads here are on-topic when there is some recent change to show.
(Re: percentage and top-level submissions — it seems to me that rule-wise recent highly upvoted comments on articles submitted by other also count as contributions)