I will be very surprised if people are not already optimizing their HN posts for marketing purposes. It's not uncommon to see people showing off their website

I will be very surprised if people are not already optimizing their HN posts for marketing purposes. It's not uncommon to see people showing off their website traffic graph on Twitter after hitting HN. You can also find people asking for advice on how to use HN to market their shitty SaaS on places like reddit. Another kind of marketing you see quite often is people replying with a post that starts off reasonable, until the third paragraph where the commentator says "this is why we built blah" and makes you feel you are staring at an half eaten Apple with half a worm in it.