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A book "review" by the author himself is basically an advertisement. I flagged it.

• packetslave 9y ago
  but... it wasn't submitted by the author, and it's not even pretending to be a review. It's a "here's info about a book I wrote, with a bunch of links to other peoples' reviews" page on the author's personal site.
  • jnordwick 9y ago
    Still biased. Do you expect to find balanced, informative links or simply ones that pump the book? So somebody submitted a link to an ad for a book, makes no difference who submitted it.
• jwilk 9y ago
  From the HN guidelines: If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
  • jnordwick 9y ago
    I sometimes ignore that when flagging articles. There is no way to say why you flagged something except to comment. Also I think that is more about comments that are nothing more than saying you flagged something. If a comment is acceptable without the words "flagged" then it should be acceptable with those extra few letters. I have noticed a lot of quasi press releases and advertisements on the site lately.