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First, zrail's book is definitely related. :) It's great luck and opportunity stripe got mentioned here. I have a question on HN etiquette re: plugging decorum

First, zrail's book is definitely related. :) It's great luck and opportunity stripe got mentioned here. I have a question on HN etiquette re: plugging decorum. I seen a few instances of this in passing, I thought it was cool. If it was in this instance, for example: What they did was drop the bait. "I wrote a book about combining Stripe and Rails". Then a reply comment, 99% of the time, will ask for them to dish out the link. If zrail simply mentioned his book on rails and stripe, my curiosity would have compelled me reply to ask for information on his book (and presumably a link). Also I would see his profile and notice he's also an engineer at a large rails site - which makes me want to hear more from him. Has anyone else here ever seen this and can show examples of it on HN comments? Is there another reason some HN posters don't do links in comments, even if they are their own projects but on topic?

lifeisstillgood 13y ago
For me, the amount of shameless plugging you can get away with is directly related (with weighting) to ones karma score multiplied by thread relevance. I think such a comment in a thread on NSA snooping would have earned many downvotes, here it's just a yes we know :-) at best. We are all here because we want profit from what we learn here (either improving our minds, or more rarely our bank balances) - and indeed most of us secretly or less secretly want to follow the freelancer / ebook / SaaS product route. To be reminded of the existence of the route and that it is not an impassable journey is, infrequently, a good thing IMO