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Cool story, but I don't really love the recent surge I've seen on here of people submitting their own blog posts. (And, as it were, literally every single one o
by exogeny 9y ago
Cool story, but I don't really love the recent surge I've seen on here of people submitting their own blog posts. (And, as it were, literally every single one of this dude's submissions are posts from his blog.) This shouldn't be another vector for self-promotion, this should be a forum in which the most insightful and/or conversation-generating content is organically sourced and ranked.
My opinion, of course.
- skrebbel 9y agoI'm not sure, I feel like that's always been pretty common on HN and I also don't see the problem. HN is not very anti-commercial in nature, after all.
- ams6110 9y agoPosts still have to get upvoted to be seen, however they are submitted.
- OJFord 9y agoOn the contrary, when minor blogs are submitted by someone not obviously the author, I'm suspicious of the submitter's relationship to the author.
- EADGBE 9y agoAt least he gets clicks. I maintain a blog about a passionate subject and receive literally no hits at all. Every week I ask myself who I'm really doing this for... (Don't look, it's not there)