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Mods, isn't it time you add something to the guidelines [1] to discourage advertisements disguised as articles? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htm

• lucb1e 9y ago
  I'm not sure about prohibiting it. I didn't really like the article, but if more people feel that way, the community just shouldn't upvote it -- or at least other, better things get more upvotes than this one. I feel like prohibition should be the last resort for things which the mods notice actively causing conflict among otherwise civil members of the community, like political discussions (e.g. there have been attempts at no politics days because of this, but that didn't work well for multiple reasons).