[acgourley]

Well, two replies I suppose:

1) I don't have advertisements on my site and my previous blog post was months ago. I'm not exactly on my way to be a full time A-list blogger. Sometimes people just want to host content they have written online, not build up an online phenomenon.

2) It's a social news site for the precise reason that people will vote for the content they like. I felt like sharing how it was possible to get a large burst in traffic using a specific method, and peopled liked it enough to up-vote it, despite my questionable writing ability. Every social news system has its holes and flaws, but I don't think my post is exploiting one of these weaknesses. For that reason I don't think it warrants special protest.

Still, I'll assume that you were lashing out from tiredness of other, more egregious, examples of self-posting, and not take it too personal.