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It's generally not appreciated to add tracking parameters to your submission links.

Looks like you've done this 3 times in the last 24 hours with different values

We're just trying hard to iterate on our messaging and HN helps us a lot with that, and we're not spamming either. The upvotes mechanism serves that purpose, the post quickly goes down if the link does not resonate with the community.

I'll try to add different interesting content next time however.

Have you consider whether that’s still a good idea if every startup did that?

Five submissions, within the last day or so, all containing your product URL; three of which are direct links.

>[...] and we're not spamming either.

Frequent, unsolicited product advertising. Yeah, you are.

I've taken that into consideration and hidden the post.

Do you still think it's OK if we post tutorials of things you can build with our platform?

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