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How is someone who submitted links only three times since September last year a spammer?

Yes they're self-promoting their own blog, but I don't see the problem wit that.

That’s not quite it. They definitely had a time in 2020 where they would repeatedly submit links to their website over and over. I can see why they’d do that, because getting to the front page involves luck. But still, not cool.

Unless they've tampered with their submissions history[1], I only see at most two submissions for the same blog post, one day apart. Would I be OK with someone posting the same link over and over half a dozen time, no, but a single retry sounds fair to me.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rkwz

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

90% of their posts are self promotion and they've done it more than 50 times.

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