Those who slip promo of their own sites among a stream of other legitimate submissions or just space it out enough across multiple accounts can fly under the radar for years. People know how to game HN and already are, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517728
replyThat one didn't work though:
replyThat's just one account that unmasked itself and was noticed. Doubtlessly that didn't stop them from moving on to the next one.
replyOh, absolutely. But there are accounts that are active here for months or years, that one at least got killed while still green.
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