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Re:For A Stranger In Silicon Valley, Success Isn’t Only Abou... by LiveTheDream on Saturday December 01, 2012 @01:49PM (#4858567)
I think tldr.io is neat, but repetitive self-promotion is really not appropriate here (not to mention that these self-promoting comments don't even disclose that you are one of the people behind tldr!). Most of your recent comments are the same type, and you even had a self-promoting submission killed already. Please stop. Thanks!
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Re:For A Stranger In Silicon Valley, Success Isn’t Only Abou... by 4clicknet on Saturday December 01, 2012 @02:26PM (#4858683)
I found the tldr link to be useful.

I think that if the content is relevant then there's nothing wrong with self-promotion. I looked at the comment history and he linked to tldr in 7/10 of his last comments over the last week. That doesn't seem excessively repetitive, although a disclosure might be appropriate.

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Re:For A Stranger In Silicon Valley, Success Isn’t Only Abou... by louischatriot on Sunday December 02, 2012 @02:53AM (#4860499)
You're right we may be posting to many of these these day. That's not pure self-promotion as re really think they help people get the gist of very long articles (remember the immortal jellyfish story?) but of course we shouldn't spam HN.
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