Ha, yeah. Lots and lots of Amazon products, with referral codes.
Garbage self promotion submitted by the author himself.
Garbage self promotion submitted by the author himself.
As for the Amazon links, if it's actually true that they were just links, not referrals, then you owe him an apology for more than just being rude.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11014139 and marked it off-topic.
In this case, straight to the front page despite many negative comments about the content.
If the article is not an Amazon link farm, it sure as hell reads exactly like one. So much so that my assumption is that the author intended to add in referral codes at a later date when reaching peak audience.
You need to stop slinging accusations at people. Gaming HN is bad. We greatly appreciate your and other users' concern about that, and believe me we share it. But undermining civility on HN is also bad, and that's the bad thing that actually is happening here. Please don't do it anymore, regardless of how weak you think an article is.
The 'gaming' in question was about getting people to upvote one's stuff. That's against the rules, but we saw no evidence you did it. This is why I chided the user who made that accusation. It's corrosive of the civility we strive for here when people make accusations without real grounds for them.
Regardless, the author has since removed the links.