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.<p>I wouldn't ordinarily call someone out like this, but I want to innoculate HN against this sort of thing.<p>----<p>Hey doches,<p>Not sure if it's conventional, but thought I'd ask anyway.<p>Would you be open to posting about my product on Hacker News?<p>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.<p>My product is called Popupular and it helps embed just about anything into a popup via a Google Chrome extension.<p>[rest of email truncated]
What's the chance that this is actually the way to get front-page placement for the product since it's in the post? How many are going to read this and check out this extension now?
You can respond:<p>> I understand that similar to Product Hunt, HN gives higher priority to users with higher karma.<p>That's not true. Best of luck :)