This is sometimes true, sometimes not. I know a few amazing designers that are on Dribble all the time, because it's an outlet for fun things they're making that have nothing to do with client work.
By the same token, if you check out /leaders, lots of people at the top _are_ killing it. There are obviously tons of successful people that aren't on HN, but "commenting on HN means you're unsuccessful," is trivially disproven.
> but "commenting on HN means you're unsuccessful," is trivially disproven.
but I didn't even say that, you just pulled that quote out of thin air. Of course posting here doesn't make you unsuccessful, but if you are successful you're less likely to be posting here. I at no point claimed the former...
I know a few amazing designers that are on Dribble all the time, because it's an outlet for fun things they're making that have nothing to do with client work.
This is also true of GitHub. But both GitHub and Dribbble are places where you show off evidence of your work. HN is more a talking shop.
By the same token, if you check out /leaders, lots of people at the top _are_ killing it. There are obviously tons of successful people that aren't on HN, but "commenting on HN means you're unsuccessful," is trivially disproven.