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Discussion on: Is Dev.to victim of its own success?

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Samuel-Zacharie FAURE

Some subreddit have a pretty hard stance on self-promotion. Maybe that could inspire some necessary change here.

There was recently an 'okayish' article about "how to get stars on github" and, lo-and-behold, all the examples were from the author's own github page. Writing about "how to get github stars" to get github stars: how meta!

This half-hidden self-promotion bothers me and maybe should be against the rules. A discreet link to your own blog or github page is fine, of course.

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David Cantrell

Reminds me of the old truism in the 90s that the only way to make money from the internet was to write a book on how to make money from the internet.