"people who self-promote (like me, or jgrahamc) are sometimes looked down on" This was the hardest lesson to learn when I started trying to promote my new site

"people who self-promote (like me, or jgrahamc) are sometimes looked down on" This was the hardest lesson to learn when I started trying to promote my new site. I realized that I knew nothing about the magic of promoting! I'm still learning actually but separating the bull from real solutions in the website promotion world is very difficult. I took being called a spammer very personally and am trying to avoid that behavior at almost all costs. I'd love to see a HN for site promotion but I'm afraid it would be a top ten list for directory submissions and keyword stuffing.