>"Submitting your own articles once to a place like HN or reddit is pretty shady in the first place" I just disagree. These sites operate pretty well as martke

>"Submitting your own articles once to a place like HN or reddit is pretty shady in the first place" I just disagree. These sites operate pretty well as martkets. If your stuff sucks, I likely won't stumble on it. >"since that's not the intent of these sites" Ironic, since we have a "Show HN" topic here, the sole purpose of which is to do what you're saying shouldn't be done. >"The intent of these sites is sharing stuff you found, not stuff you created." I want to read good content; I don't care who submits it. I'd rather risk people submitting their own crap sometimes than never getting a chance to read something good that nobody "found". Spamming is one thing, and obnoxious. But I find it a tad hypocritical to accept A/B testing colours on a button to squeeze another buck from someone, but reject someone A/B testing content to find out what combination of words in the title creates the most page views. It's the same business.