There's nothing wrong with authors submitting their own articles to HN. On the contrary, authors honor HN by sharing their work here and engaging with the community about it.
As for the Amazon links, if it's actually true that they were just links, not referrals, then you owe him an apology for more than just being rude.
I find it to be garbage self promotion when an article with little and/or poor content is submitted by the author and immediately gets 10+ upvotes without any comments, sending it straight to the front page.
In this case, straight to the front page despite many negative comments about the content.
If the article is not an Amazon link farm, it sure as hell reads exactly like one. So much so that my assumption is that the author intended to add in referral codes at a later date when reaching peak audience.
The amazon links did not have 'tag=' which is what the referral program uses. They just had 'ref=' which is what amazon uses to track how you got around the site.
Regardless, the author has since removed the links.
dang|10 years ago
As for the Amazon links, if it's actually true that they were just links, not referrals, then you owe him an apology for more than just being rude.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11014139 and marked it off-topic.
herbig|10 years ago
In this case, straight to the front page despite many negative comments about the content.
If the article is not an Amazon link farm, it sure as hell reads exactly like one. So much so that my assumption is that the author intended to add in referral codes at a later date when reaching peak audience.
hire_charts|10 years ago
Regardless, the author has since removed the links.
snow_mac|10 years ago
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