Ask YC: My idea, what do you think?

[german]

I just submitted two interesting stories and while i was doing that I thought: I would be easier to have an YC firefox plugin for submissions. I know that a lot of people here are capable of coding it, so, what do you think a bout this idea?

[dcurtis]

I think it should be kind of hard to submit something, so people don't submit crap all the time. It should be a long, tedious process to submit an article so that when you finally find a good one, you feel like you want to embark on a journey to submit it to News.YC.

[DarrenStuart]

have you tried the bookmarklet?

http://writewith.com/fun/bookmarklet

it will do what you want, just drag it on to your shortcuts area.

[andreyf]

It would be easier to have an YC firefox plugin for submissions

Really? Copy-pasting a URL is too overburdening? I guess it depends on how many stories you submit... Maybe a plugin that lets you submit to programming.reddit, new.YC, and digg at the same time would be nicer.

[marcus → andreyf]

Please don't do that, while a few rare articles might be a good fit for all 3 sites, most aren't. Lets keep the sites separate otherwise we'll have to start looking for a new hangout.

[german → andreyf]

I'm not logged in at YC everytime y surf the net.