> They can still share their views and be heard, just not for self-promotion. It might seem like a good idea to tell them this up-front, but keep in mind that m

> They can still share their views and be heard, just not for self-promotion. It might seem like a good idea to tell them this up-front, but keep in mind that most of them do not care about the community, and the ones that do care more about their own self-promotion than HN. What about false positives? If I post a link to an interesting article somewhere deep inside a discussion and the system flags it as self-promotion, I have no way to react to this if the system goes out of its way not to tell me.