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by josefresco 4029 days ago
I agree the call to action was very specific ("dear HNers"), but I think we all assume that authors promote their own writings via many channels.
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Promoting their own writing is perfectly fine. Promoting a HN submission which is likely irrelevant to said writing is not.
It doesn't say "check out my essay" it says "upvote my essay on HN".