You are putting words into my mouth.
He clearly wrote:
> I've made a ton of submissions in the past 8 months and experimented with various combinations of stories/titles that the HN audience might like, without always being successful. (Probably one out of every 4-5 submissions turned into an angry mob haha)
20%-25% of his submissions made readers angry.
Nevertheless he kept going and tried, by his own admission, to micro-optimise his submissions to get visibility.
Maybe my sense of ethics is different than yours, but please don't put words in my mouth.
You said he's willing to do anything when what you meant was he is willing to work on optimising his work to better appeal to a specific target community. How does that negatively impact there community exactly?
My sense of ethics precludes me from creating a temp account to mask my own identity while attacking someone else online so I guess you're right that our ethics differ.
That seems counter-intuitive since really all HN cares about in the end is quality content.