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And this is not the first time [1], either. I feel it's unethical to not disclose in the article that he's affiliated with the services he's advertising. [1] h
by fuzxi 6y ago
And this is not the first time [1], either. I feel it's unethical to not disclose in the article that he's affiliated with the services he's advertising.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24544195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24544195
- boogies 6y ago> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. — https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I wish I could downvote this submission. I wonder whether I should flag it.
- fuzxi 6y agoNeither the parent link nor the post I linked are from accounts with an inordinate number of posts for Troy Hunt's blog (I count 1 each). I don't think he's breaking HN rules, I just think he's being deceptive and unethical.
- boogies 6y agoRight, I don’t want to take the accounts’ karma (certainly not more than they’ve gained from the submissions), I just want to lower the prominence of the links funneling traffic to the unethical and deceptive post.