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Comment by anigbrowl | Hacker News Reader

I'm fine with it, but you should put your affiliation in your profile for everyone else to see. Mods - this ought to be a requirement of using HN as a promotional outlet.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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Adding it now. Good suggestion.

Thanks! I know HN is so minimal that it's easy to overlook.

And what will you do for this blatant spam account?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sexyalterego

It's a shame the mods didn't shitlist your domain entirely, you're obviously here just to exploit HN.

I thought for a second that they might be changing, but this basically proves me wrong.

Well, we will see if they add the disclosure in the about field.

Do you have definite proof of who operate the account?

The number of people outside of dailydot that care about improving dailydot's mind/marketshare on HN is somewhere between 0 and delusional.

But I will concede it could be some random, unaffiliated person who just really, really, really, really wishes we would get our news from dailydot!

Or just playing around or trolling for fun.

For 7 months.

That definitely sounds more likely than spam on the internet.

He's most definitely not Jay Hathaway, AKA sexyalterego on reddit, currently "assigning editor at the Daily Dot".

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&site=&source=hp&q=You+...

I for one am shocked it wasn't some random unaffiliated person who just really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really wanted us to get our news from dailydot.

To be honest, a reminder is definitely good. I was just worried about making definite claims without evidence. And just because one spam account can be explained like this don't mean it can be applied to all of them.

Point taken. I've updated my profile to reflect my affiliation. As Austin pointed out, it's not our intention to spam—we only submit stories that could actually be of interest to the community. We'll make sure those stories are coming from a variety of sources in the future, and also contribute to discussions.

Thanks.

The sad thing is that reddit don't even support it. I posted this on r/ideasfortheadmins to fix both problems: http://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/comments/xmsan/add...

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