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Discussion on: Tips to get Visibility + Feedback to your GitHub project

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MiguelMJ

50% of this article: to get stars, tell other people on social media.
50%: links to your projects Lucia and Million.
Low effort and spam under a a clickbait title. Why don't you make clear that you just wanted to promote your projects?

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shadowtime2000

It seems kind of like an outrageous comment to say that its spam. While there are links to Lucia and Million, those links are just examples of what are ways to organize stuff. One could argue that it is low effort, but that doesn't mean its spam, and even if it's low effort, what still matters is that it provides value to the reader on different ways to help promote projects. By the looks of the comments on the bottom, it seems it has.

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MiguelMJ

I agree, I guess you're right

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Aiden Bai • Edited

Yes... the point of providing links to my projects is to provide examples on how to promote your project. If I just wrote some content under this post without any substantial examples, then it would just be handwaving at best. I also never said that I didn't want to promote my own projects - I literally used the strategies I specified in the article on the article itself?

Additionally, if this was just spam - it wouldn't provide any value to others. This article is a listing of things I learned through this process. It's kind of annoying to see comments like this immediately dismissing articles that arre helpful for others but maybe not for yourself.