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Re:The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire by minimaxir on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:37PM (#5972677)
It's definitely not encouraged on Reddit, one of the old notes of Redditquite is "if more than 10% of what you submit is your personal content, then you're probably a spammer."

Once, someone submitted one of my blog posts about a rather interesting bug in a AAA game to /r/programming. Over 1,000 net score. Out of curiosity, I submitted the same post myself to /r/games. -7 score.

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Re:The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire by skeletonjelly on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:26PM (#5974428)
Your last example could be bad timing and/or the r/games audience not caring about programming etc
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Re:The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire by minimaxir on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @04:08AM (#5976425)
True, although once a credible news source made a post with similar, it hit the front page of /r/games quickly.
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