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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by exogeny on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:11AM (#18783897)
The percentage of links to your blog that you post in your comments is extremely high and extremely notable. Make of that what you will.
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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by softwaredoug on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:19AM (#18783944)
I don’t have a problem to people linking to their blogs as long as it’s relevant and helpful to the conversation.
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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by ddingus on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:50AM (#18784096)
I do not either. The alternatives are:

Do not make us aware

Copy paste, and someone will likely say [citation needed]

Paraphrase

Etc...

Where relevancy is high, links make sense.

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by barry-cotter on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:53AM (#18784416)
It’s almost like he’s written a lot about many things for years and would like to point others to his thoughts and experiences.
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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by 300bps on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:18AM (#18783940)
exogeny said... The percentage of links to your blog that you post in your comments is extremely high and extremely notable. Make of that what you will.

HN uses rel=nofollow links so he's not posting links as part of some SEO plan. Cursory review of his previous comments shows he links to other sites more often than his own. It makes sense someone would often post links to their own blog though - if they're interested in a topic, they're likely to both comment on and blog about it.

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by newnewpdro on Saturday December 29, 2018 @11:20AM (#18784247)
Beats users linking to one of the near-web-monopoly sites like twitter or facebook constantly!

I'm shocked you're essentially chastising someone for having their own domain and publishing articles on it they then link to. If anything we should be encouraging this behavior.

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