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by nawgz 1654 days ago
> frequently in the form of effusive praise

I somehow doubt it's in the form of 5:1 ratio of effusive praise to questioning/criticism outside of the true top books there, and then to see this on a random ad where the OP swears he's not contacted anyone about the Show HN and yet all his "happy" "lurking" "customers" pop up with really sweet words within an hour is comical

I understand people are nice sometimes, but it's clearly not organic here.

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> it's clearly not organic here.

And yet it's 100% organic here. I was few times on the HN frontpage with my blog (that links my book) so I was hoping some of my readers actually hang out here. I postponed Show HN a few months to get a few hundreds customers first. But that's it.

You don't have to believe me, but it's the truth.

I’d be far likelier to believe you if it wasn’t so obvious and you didn’t protest so much.
If someone is calling me a cheater and a liar, I will at least say they are wrong.