I think whoever runs ignition.co or does marketing for it liked the traffic boost they got from someone posting this article randomly:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10802816" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10802816</a><p>Then created these accounts to drip feed more of their articles here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;submitted?id=marmn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;submitted?id=marmn</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;submitted?id=alma88" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;submitted?id=alma88</a><p>I mean, just look at the titles.  They don&#x27;t fit with the general theme of the content which is usually posted on HN.  This general focus of content on HN has indeed become more muddied and low quality as time has gone on and it approaches Reddit status, but I&#x27;m not ready to give it up yet.<p>EDIT:  Ahh, I&#x27;m wrong.  There&#x27;s another account which predates the &quot;moss&quot; submission:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;submitted?id=ngym" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;submitted?id=ngym</a><p>So it&#x27;s just spammers who have about 33% of their articles killed by the system, and I suppose the rest are being flagged off the front page.