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There I was thinking that obviously "jasonlbaptiste" and "markbao" were sock puppets but no, mark bao sounds Chinese. A few clicks confirms it.

So what the hell? Have you guys got an agreement to submit each other's stuff or something? Honestly I don't like that. If jasonlbaptiste writes something good on jasonlbaptiste.com, then just submit it yourself, jasonlbaptiste. You don't need a proxy.

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Mark is partners with Jason on one of the startups Mark is involved with (it says that on his profile), so it stands to reason he reads Jason's blog a lot. Don't need to be a conspiracy.

Markbao did 9/11!

Hm. Too soon?

Anyway, I didn't mean to allege a conspiracy. Just saying that if people write something, and they have an account here, they should take ownership and submit it themselves.

What? As soon as I blog anything interesting (or that I think MIGHT be interesting), I should rush over to hacker news and submit it? I always feel weird submitting my own stuff and (honestly) submitting it to social news sites is not the first thing that pops into my head when I blog.

Uhm, the community votes on whether the submission is good or not. Who cares who submits it?

I can't vote down. I'm not a fan of the zero-substance "look at me" approach. Other people are (which is why the "look at me" approach exists), but it's unfair to say the community decides on whether the submission is worthwhile.

It's quite normal that one HN user submits something from another HN users blog. Some of my blogposts have been submitted by other users, I don't think that's unethical or wrong. If the community likes it they'll vote it up, if they don't they won't.

I shared the post with Mark and he submitted. I was going to do it in a tiny bit, but it's silly to repost it under my name.

OK guys that's cool. Just you know, submit your own stuff. There is no point mixing it up.

Hope you didn't take offense, none intended! : D

I understand the first glance reaction. No offense taken at all :-).

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