[SpecStudioHN]

ditto. signed up, posted a link to a project, and whammo! flagged instantly.

[defrost]

Unsurprising, the guidelines for HN state that self promotion is okay ... but not as the sole activity of an account.

Did you consider playing nice and perhaps taking the regular forum users out to dinner first? Make some light conversation?

People (the other HN users) react poorly to strangers busting in and spruiking in their living room / corner bar.