Ask HN: "submit to HN" button Yea or Nay

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16 years ago

I say an intersting title in the new section and I clicked through to this article http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/06/23/how-my-startup-went-ipo-and-skipped-vc-funding-a-story/

To my shock and dismay sitting right between the share this on Facebook and Stumble This! was a button for submitting to HN?!

This I feel is the beginning of a slippery slope, now I'm not saying that people shouldn't be free to submit content to HN and obviously I understand that this button is merely a link to the "submit to news.ycominator" page, but buttons are the first step towards people gaming HN en-masse.

Am I the only one who feels this way?

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