Hi, I just wrote a post and was planning on publishing it here. I wanted to check a couple of things first though, as I haven’t posted on old or new LW before:
Should I post this to the front page or just to my page?
What’s the preferred way of reposting something from elsewhere? Just the link, link with some explanation, or reposting the whole lot here? (I’m happy to do any of these.)
Sorry if I’ve missed some other post that explains these things.
The preferred way is to crosspost the whole content, which I will try to make a bit easier in the future (i.e. by allowing you to automatically import the content of a link, when that’s easily doable)
Thanks for replying! I think I was expecting a link post to behave somewhat differently, i.e. take you to a summary page with comments rather than straight off the site. I will crosspost manually in future if I have anything that I feel would be a good fit (also I think the process of manually crossposting might have been enough for me to realise that this specific link was not a great fit).
I’ve posted on the frontpage as a linkpost (included explanation but appears not to show currently), let me know if I should do something different in future.
I think that seems like the right way to do it: link post to the frontpage. If you don’t mark for something to go on the frontpage it will basically be undiscoverable unless you give someone the link or they go looking really hard for the post.
Hi, I just wrote a post and was planning on publishing it here. I wanted to check a couple of things first though, as I haven’t posted on old or new LW before:
Should I post this to the front page or just to my page?
What’s the preferred way of reposting something from elsewhere? Just the link, link with some explanation, or reposting the whole lot here? (I’m happy to do any of these.)
Sorry if I’ve missed some other post that explains these things.
The preferred way is to crosspost the whole content, which I will try to make a bit easier in the future (i.e. by allowing you to automatically import the content of a link, when that’s easily doable)
Thanks for replying! I think I was expecting a link post to behave somewhat differently, i.e. take you to a summary page with comments rather than straight off the site. I will crosspost manually in future if I have anything that I feel would be a good fit (also I think the process of manually crossposting might have been enough for me to realise that this specific link was not a great fit).
I’ve posted on the frontpage as a linkpost (included explanation but appears not to show currently), let me know if I should do something different in future.
I think that seems like the right way to do it: link post to the frontpage. If you don’t mark for something to go on the frontpage it will basically be undiscoverable unless you give someone the link or they go looking really hard for the post.