Is it just me, or is that the most annoying example of advertising that you've ever seen on a page?

It's bad enough that I'm confident I'll avoid "ihelplounge" pages like the plague should I ever see that URL again.

[Edit - also, mark01 is a spam account which does nothing but submit ihelplounge pages to HN]

its weird I posted a microsoft page that got 30 likes in a hour or so, that was just as much a "sales" type page as this and it never made the front page. It would be interesting to see how they do it considering this has 3 points at the moment...