Ask HN: New York Times Submissions by New York Times. Is This OK?

6 points·nyc111··7 comments

Lately, I've been seeing a flood of posts from NYT. Is this an attempt by Times to get HN traffic? Is this allowed by moderators?

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Most of the links were submitted by different users, that are not just created to submit the links and that submitted other stuff and comments. It looks normal for a popular general interest site.

Perhaps the mods have more data, and can double check it, but this looks pretty normal for me.

Then it must have been pure luck that the one Nyt poster I checked posts only Nyt links, works for Nyt and only comments to his own posts. He is not hiding he works for Nyt. Still I believe I see more Nyt links than ever before. I might be wrong though.

I count 12 different articles in the last 24 hours, some of which are duplicates - a known feature of HN. That doesn't seem excessive to me.

Can you be more specific about why you think this is "a flood?"

The same user posting nothing but NYT articles and working for NYT and for me posting too frequently.

If you have a concern that something untoward is going on, you can contact the mods directly via the Contact link in the footer. If there's abuse, they want to know about it.

Mmm, not sure I want to contact the mods. It seems like no one else noticed a flood of Nyt articles.

They don't mind, and are quite responsive in my experience. It's better to do that than post comments or Ask HN submissions as you'll get a definitive answer.

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