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Re:Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable by exogeny on Sunday August 06, 2017 @02:51PM (#14942773)
Cool story, but I don't really love the recent surge I've seen on here of people submitting their own blog posts. (And, as it were, literally every single one of this dude's submissions are posts from his blog.) This shouldn't be another vector for self-promotion, this should be a forum in which the most insightful and/or conversation-generating content is organically sourced and ranked.

My opinion, of course.

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Re:Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable by skrebbel on Sunday August 06, 2017 @03:14PM (#14942928)
I'm not sure, I feel like that's always been pretty common on HN and I also don't see the problem. HN is not very anti-commercial in nature, after all.
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Re:Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable by ams6110 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @03:29PM (#14942998)
Posts still have to get upvoted to be seen, however they are submitted.
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Re:Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable by EADGBE on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:33AM (#14947722)
At least he gets clicks.

I maintain a blog about a passionate subject and receive literally no hits at all.

Every week I ask myself who I'm really doing this for...

(Don't look, it's not there)

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Re:Why I Traded My TV for a Turntable by OJFord on Sunday August 06, 2017 @06:38PM (#14944093)
On the contrary, when minor blogs are submitted by someone not obviously the author, I'm suspicious of the submitter's relationship to the author.
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