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bcaulfield: Are you a nVidia employee? You've been spamming 'groundbraking' news about nVidia for days. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bcaulfield ht

• CoolGuySteve 8y ago
  A quick google shows that he's the 'chief blogger' for NVidia. IMO this kind of astroturfing shouldn't be allowed without some kind of disclaimer even if the content is pretty interesting. There should at least be something in his bio about it.
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  • etaioinshrdlu 8y ago
    NVIDIA is great at social media marketing and puts a lot of effort into it. But it is advertising and it is not good for communities at all.
  • dang 8y ago
    That's not astroturfing. It's ok on HN to submit your own stuff as long as it's mixed with a variety of other material that you ran across and personally found interesting. Using HN only to submit own material is less cool, but not something we necessarily ban users for. The community tends to frown on and flag such submissions though. bcaulfield is obviously a legit HN user. The proportion is probably too heavily on the Nvidia side, but that doesn't mean he should be hounded off HN either.