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Rajiv Ayyangar
New forum guidelines
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The Product hunt community is amazing, and know there's lots of knowledge to share. I want to make the forums the most vibrant forums for product builders on the internet. To that end we've re-designed forums, defined sub-forums, and introduced product-specific forums, and we've drafted new guidelines to keep the discussions vibrant, authentic, and genuinely useful. The new guidelines are here - https://help.producthunt.com/en/... - you can read them in full, but here's my summary: When posting a new forum thread, ask yourself:

1) Is this a genuine question I have that I want the community to answer?

2) Is this an insight that will be helpful to other builders and product geeks?

If the answer isn't a confident "Yes" to one of those, don't post the thread. As an addendum to 1: When posting a question, please provide enough detail for the community to answer your question. Instead of: Subject: Analytics tools Post: "What's the best analytics tool for startups? do this: Subject: Analytics tools Post: I built a note-taking app, , and we launched 6 months ago. I'm trying to understand user behavior and I've been using for analytics. I'm considering switching to something like Mixpanel or Metabase. What do other people use for user behavior analytics? What other questions should I be asking?
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Konrad S.
I'd suggest renaming the "Self-promotion" sub-forum to something like "Your products and projects" * If we talk about our own products that's not necessarily primarily self-promotion, we may e.g. just want to give insights or connect with others working on similar things * I think no one really wants to watch others "promote themselves", instead we want to get insights into their projects etc. * "Self-promotion" simply has kind of a negative connotation * The guidelines discourage self-promotion Is there a reason not to introduce more specific forums like * Technical * Marketing * Business * Big questions * Personal * PH launch? Would sure make it easier for people to find what they're interested in...
Rajiv Ayyangar
@konrad_sx I meant it to be a bit humorous. We should all be self-promoting and getting better at telling our products’ story! But the feedback is noted. As for sub forums, we’ll eventually get there but for now I think it’s more interesting to have the bulk of the product conversation in either general or product subforums.
Konrad S.
@rajiv_ayyangar I see ... I fear I'm lacking humor then :( sorry! I agree that it also has advantages to have one large instead of many small forums. (one could of course also have the best of both approaches: Require posts to be tagged with a specific "subtopic" and have filters for them)
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
Can we report comments that we perceive as "not genuine"? :)
Rajiv Ayyangar
@chrismessina we're working on a "Report" feature. In the meantime you can send a link to hello@
Ash G
I like these new guidelines. These will encourage users to ask more thoughtful and specific questions, rather than just the usual generic ones.
Neel Patel
Are we getting ourselves a new reddit?
Rajiv Ayyangar
@neelptl2602 certainly we've taken inspiration from some elements of Reddit!
Ankit Sharma
Great! This is much better than the previous discussion. Thanks
Samar Ali
Launching soon!
Thanks for sharing the updated forum guidelines!
Genevieve Lopez
Will posts get removed if they don't meet criteria?
Sonu Goswami
Gr88...Good Luck!
Kay Kwak
This will make the forum more lively! Thank you