Smells like a blogspammer. http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=AaronChua

Sorry if what I did is something against the community rules.

I thought that Hacker News has a pretty solid filtering system so that only interesting articles get floated to the top. If my article was irrelevant, it will stay unnoticed and not affect the front page.

My intention was not to spam but to invite relevant discussions. I did nothing more than submit my article and let the community decide its relevance.

Why is it bad practice to submit your own blogs? If you have something interesting to say, people will vote them up.

I'll admit it bothers me a bit. I don't have a problem with people who participate here submitting their blog posts but as a fairly active member of this community I'm a little offended by someone who doesn't contribute in any other way.

That said I don't suspect foul play here simply because someone who was using voting bots or some other form of cheating would probably do it more often (most of this guy's post never get above 1)

If you have something interesting to say, someone else will submit it.

Unless you don't already have readers from HN.