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Just a heads-up: You should really have put your link in the "url" box of the submission form, not the text box. Also, a permalink to the post (ie, http://math

Just a heads-up: You should really have put your link in the "url" box of the submission form, not the text box. Also, a permalink to the post (ie, http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/what-could-possibly-make-two-numbers.html http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/what-could-poss... ) would be preferable to just linking to the blog's front page, as the link would stay accurate even after other posts are made to the blog.

dalke 14y ago
Another heads up. This poster has been spamming stupid math tricks for the last few months, often with multiple links to the same topic. A few weeks ago - probably after so many flags - the style switched from posting to the *tricks site to posting to an HN page, with the link forward to the real site as a comment. I assume so as to reduce the number of flaggings.
- EvilTerran 14y ago
  Ah, thanks for pointing that out. It did seem a little spammy, but I was giving hir the benefit of the doubt. Next time my spam-sense tingles, I'll check their posting history before deciding whether to reply or flag.
  - dalke 14y ago
    Which wouldn't have helped here - new account with no history. BTW, interesting combination of 'his' and 'their' as two different ways to express the genderless third person singular. :)
    - EvilTerran 14y ago
      Well, I'd flag a spammy-looking first post as spam when I'd give the same post from an established account the benefit of the doubt, so it would've helped in its own way. I'm trying to get into the habit of genderless singular pronouns, hence "hir", but, TBH, simply forgot to when I typed "their" instead of "eir". I guess singular "their" just seems less jarring to me than singular "them", for some subconscious reason.
ColinWright 14y ago
No, he knows exactly what he's doing. For months now he's submitted page after page from the same web site until people asked him to slow down and reconsider. Then the items started getting flagged, and now he tries to avoid all the usual detection methods. Try this search: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mathema-tricks.blogspot.com http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mathema-tri... So this submission, and its comment, have been flagged as well.

dalke 14y ago

Another heads up. This poster has been spamming stupid math tricks for the last few months, often with multiple links to the same topic. A few weeks ago - probably after so many flags - the style switched from posting to the *tricks site to posting to an HN page, with the link forward to the real site as a comment. I assume so as to reduce the number of flaggings.

EvilTerran 14y ago
Ah, thanks for pointing that out. It did seem a little spammy, but I was giving hir the benefit of the doubt. Next time my spam-sense tingles, I'll check their posting history before deciding whether to reply or flag.
- dalke 14y ago
  Which wouldn't have helped here - new account with no history. BTW, interesting combination of 'his' and 'their' as two different ways to express the genderless third person singular. :)
  - EvilTerran 14y ago
    Well, I'd flag a spammy-looking first post as spam when I'd give the same post from an established account the benefit of the doubt, so it would've helped in its own way. I'm trying to get into the habit of genderless singular pronouns, hence "hir", but, TBH, simply forgot to when I typed "their" instead of "eir". I guess singular "their" just seems less jarring to me than singular "them", for some subconscious reason.

ColinWright 14y ago

No, he knows exactly what he's doing. For months now he's submitted page after page from the same web site until people asked him to slow down and reconsider. Then the items started getting flagged, and now he tries to avoid all the usual detection methods. Try this search: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mathema-tricks.blogspot.com http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=mathema-tri... So this submission, and its comment, have been flagged as well.