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I agree in theory, but I guess it can seem more self-promotional than informational, which is contrary to the purpose of these forums.

I think it's fine to post your own material here. If it's not informational it won't get voted up.

I prefer self-posts - the karma goes to the author.

No it's not true.

I've self posted a number of times and I've yet to see a post saying "hey, dont self post"; sometimes they flopped, sometimes they did really well. No one complained :)

Indeed the guidelines actually encourages some types of self posting: if you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead.

(and indeed this very submission seems to meet those guidelines exactly :D)

It's funny that the discussion on the article kicked off a whole other topic. I was really just trying leave a comment that provided a link to the discussion of the original post. But it's nice hear everyone's thoughts on this. It just goes to show the higher overall maturity level of HN compared to other communities.