[codetrotter]

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=deprocrastination.co

Interesting that pretty much all submissions on the first page of results from this domain is both by the same user and broadly seems to be about the same overarching theme of procrastination.

Is OP the author of the site?

(OP also posts links to other sites, so not saying OP is doing anything wrong though.)

[moritzwarhier]

Since 7 of the last 30 submissions by OP are that site and the pattern continues, I find it absolutely understandable and good-faith to become suspicious.

Other users have been accusing the same https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28894120

I don't want to participate in a witch hunt here, but HN needs to stay vigilant against spam and self-promotion that exceeds the reasonable intersection with honestly showing personal projects.

Discussions including "human interest" topics like this one are often of exceptional quality here. It would be bad to lose that.

So I think it is fair to dicuss this openly. Sorry if I am being coming across as rude towards a one man enterprise or something, but self-promotion on HN should follow strict rules and if this is indeed promotion, it is breaking the rules.

[CuriousCosmic]

I think given the OP is a regular poster and they often post content from the same domains multiple times (each with a different article, with decent amounts of time between posts, i.e. ~1/wk), they probably just follow the content on these sites and "cross post" it to HN whenever they find something particularly interesting to them.

I can say personally (while I don't post on HN), when I share content in a community, it's things I find interesting, which often I see from the projects/blogs I subscribe to/follow.

So odds are OP is just someone with ADHD who finds this content useful to themself and people like them so they share new content from the site when they see it.

[moritzwarhier]

I did not elaborate on this for time reasons and because I don't want to make up unfounded accusations (astroturfing) against other users.

Just had a bad gut feeling with this particular post and content and wanted to comment on it (plus context).

Your explanation is nicer and I'll assume I was wrong here for it's better to assume good intentions.

[Kiro]

> but self-promotion on HN should follow strict rules and if this is indeed promotion, it is breaking the rules.

What rules are you referring to? This is what the HN guidelines say:

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Doesn't seem very strict to me.

[strongpigeon]

Which rule is it breaking? From the guidelines:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

[StefanBatory]

They might be just binging a site or just liking it to the point where they want to share every article.

I would do so in the past too.

[Tomte]

It‘s not breaking the rules. You‘re breaking the rules.

Stop harassing people!

[moritzwarhier]

I'm sorry, harassing OP was the least of my intentions.

So maybe I should have worded my comment differently, or not comment at all.

The reason for my comment and that I even deep linked another thread was simple, I strongly felt that this exceeds a normal amount of promotional content, especially when it comes to self-help themes.

My sincerest apologies if this came across as me unaskedly playing the moderator, or if my brief look at the previous threads appears like I was stalking OPs comment history.

[vitabenes]

I post whatever I find interesting and occasionally throw in one of the articles I worked on. If people find it interesting or useful, great, if not, that's okay too.

[maronato]

Is this a case of the former or latter?

[SirSavary]

Seems like the latter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31434220