[bahmboo]

The author didn't submit this to HN. I read his blog but I'm not on X so I do like when he covers things there. He's submitted 10 times in last 62 days.

[bakugo]

> He's submitted 10 times in last 62 days.

Now check how many times he links to his blog in comments.

Actually, here, I'll do it for you: He has made 13209 comments in total, and 1422 of those contain a link to his blog[0]. An objectively ridiculous number, and anyone else would've likely been banned or at least told off for self-promotion long before reaching that number.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[bahmboo]

I like being able to follow tangents and related topics outside the main comment thread so generally I appreciate when people do that via a link along with some context.

But this isn't my site and I don't get to pick the rules.

[Barbing]

>anyone else

Perhaps not other thought leaders.

I would be curious to know:

How many clicks out from HN, and much time on page on average (on his site), and much subsequent pro-social discussion on HN, did those links generate versus the average linkout here? Wouldn’t change the rules but I do suspect[0] it would repaint self-promotion as something more genuine.

[npilk]

So about 1 in 10? Doesn’t seem that terrible to me. Especially when many of them are in response to questions about his work, and he’s answering with a link to a different post.

I think 7 or 8 out of 10 would be a bad look.

[greenie_beans]

he adds an insane amount of signal. some folks just can't look at the light and that's ok!