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Ask HN: What can we do about explosion of self promotion in HN comments

9 points by dominotw ↗ HN
Every comment thread has turned into this

> Thoughts about X

>> X is great but checkout my shitty vibecoded project on github

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pwg
Downvote and/or flag and move along.
smt88
I see more of these comments now but it's not enough that it's bothered me. I wonder why our experiences differ.
jjgreen
Set RoboDogs on the swine. But a RoboDog needs a hostile and violent OS, checkout this shitty project I vibecoded on GitHub ....
kentich
A bit of self-promotion does not hurt anybody. Stop whining and skip such comments. The assault on self-promotion on Reddit has already buried countless good projects and startups.
jimmont
Turn off the ability to add hyperlinks and use words instead? Is that what comments were intended for anyway? Seems a bit convoluted, but limiting comments, to comments, would be fairly natural. It'll get subverted anyway, but likely affects. A policy could say don't use hyperlinks, feel free to say where to go. Which would be an interesting policy to technically enforce, and still have the discretion to operate on.