It's not really so much about the 'promotion' as such but the sameyness and repetition. There's lots of mod comments explaining this but a very stripped down ex

It's not really so much about the 'promotion' as such but the sameyness and repetition. There's lots of mod comments explaining this but a very stripped down explanation is that posting the same/related stuff over and over is repetitive and boring which is the opposite of the aim of HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...