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Usually, posts like this, where the submitter's username matches the domain name of the posted article, get flagged and killed pretty quickly.


Nothing wrong with someone posting their own stuff, if it's good. I haven't read this article, but presumably lots of HN upvoters have assessed it that way.


>Nothing wrong with someone posting their own stuff, if it's good. I haven't read this article, but presumably lots of HN upvoters have assessed it that way.

I didn't intend to imply there was anything wrong with it, I was only sharing an observation.

And yet, a number of people felt compelled to downvote me because of it.


Normally when the submitter only submits things from their own domain; or submits very frequently.




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