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by kgermino 5754 days ago
Just because he's a CEO and you don't find the articles interesting doesn't mean that he shouldn't be posting them. As it's been said HN is full of entrepreneurs who contribute massively to the site. If you have a problem with that maybe their not the one's who should leave...
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igravious 5754 days ago
Wow. That's really nice kgermino: a not so veiled hint that I should leave this site because I have a dissenting opinion. And like I keep saying, it's not that I don't find the posts interesting or not. It appears that I was operating under the assumption that the submissions in HN are user-generated. Now that HN has gotten popular and can drive a lot of traffic towards a site I think that people should disclose the fact that they are affiliated with the source or not. And for saying that I repeatedly get downmodded. And that (in my opinion) says a lot about the mentality of HN. I was about the 19,000th person to sign up to SlashDot. When I say that I have certain expectations of sites like these I kind of am not talking out of my ass. If you don't mind I think I'll stick around for a while and see does the mentality of HN improve.
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Kadrith 5754 days ago
Why can't the CEO of a site also be a user of HN? Should they have to get someone else to post their article? How would we track that and is it really worth the effort?

Your posts that got downvoted were the short ones without context or value to the conversation. All of your posts that actually provide something to the conversation still have positive points (at the time of posting).

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