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Re:Ask HN: When is a “growth hack” appropriate or inappropri... by downandout on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:23AM (#8514294)
If you ask the HN crowd, effectively all growth hacks will be considered spam/inappropriate. Case in point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8455138

In general, tech people believe that any message of any kind that may result in revenue, clicks, or new users for the sender is spam. I think real users consider unsolicited messages that don't deliver value to them to be spam, and welcome things that do deliver some value to them.

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