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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by EGreg on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @02:28AM (#26788757)
No, if I posted links to the actual product on HN comments I'd be accused of "shilling" it by someone and downvoted for that. (Search this page for the word "shilling" for instance, it's already happened.) So often I prefer to discuss the broader topic until the product is good enough to just submit to HN as a submission. I encourage you to watch the video discussion with Noam Chomsky, or read the text on rational.app for TL;DR
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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by bawolff on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:26AM (#26789121)
Shilling with extra steps is still shilling. If you're going to do that might as well actually write out what your proposal is so we can skim it.

A paragraph (or page) of someone being self promoting is something i might read if its on topic and sounds like they have something insightful to add. A video has almost zero chance.

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Re:A Wikipedia editor's campaign to discredit anti-war campa... by EGreg on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:45AM (#26792041)
Seems many people think differently than you.
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