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Comment by jere | Hacker News Reader

Off topic, but gwern, I've noticed you've gone on a reposting binge of your old articles (14 in the last 3 weeks). Any reason in particular that you decided to do this? And isn't this kind of thing generally frowned upon (maybe not that's why I'm asking)? Not that I mind, by the way; they're really high quality articles.

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He is doing an experiment where he regularly posts one of his good articles together with two foreign articles he liked.

See his submission history and comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466422

> with two foreign articles he liked.

And if I may say so, I'm a little disappointed in the performance of those submission - I thought many of them were better than my own article, but I think maybe 2 or 3 at this point have reached the main page.

Yup, many were better. But the thing is that they are long and you are not the author. Your essays are long too but since you are authoring them, they become popular. I think many just upvote you without reading your whole article.

That would explain the patterns, yes. (I'm also annoyed at how HN keeps editing the submission titles. Seriously, who keeps wasting their time doing that?!)

They are not necessarily "old" articles. They are constantly updated essays. The article is last modified "05 Sep 2013".

Self-promotion is welcome here, and the anti-dupe filter is limited in time. AFAIK no harm done, regardless of the quality of the articles.

Reddit frowns upon systematic self-promotion, though.

Right. Perhaps I'm thinking of reddit. There, you're told more than 10% of your submissions being self promotion is considered spam.

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