Show HN: Soliciting post placement on Hacker News

Hey, HN -- I just received the following email and I'm not sure what to do about it. Obviously I want to discourage requested-posting like this; is there some structured way that we can do that? One of the things I love about HN is how high the signal-to-noise ratio is relative to...pretty much the rest of the internet.


I wouldn't ordinarily call someone out like this, but I want to innoculate HN against this sort of thing.


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Hey doches,


Not sure if it's conventional, but thought I'd ask anyway.


Would you be open to posting about my product on Hacker News?


I understand that similar to Product Hunt, HN gives higher priority to users with higher karma. I usually keep up with recent discussions via RSS feed on Feedly, but almost neve post. So I thought I'd reach out to someone that has authority.


My product is called Popupular and it helps embed just about anything into a popup via a Google Chrome extension.


[rest of email truncated]



Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756569


Points: 5


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