I've never understood why people care about this. Lots of people submit their own stuff. All I care about is the quality of the articles and discussion, which is orthogonal to the identity of the submitter.
Why would you not care if people are here to exploit you and the rest of this community?
Almost nobody unaffiliated submits their crap in spite of a year+ of spamming with about 8 different accounts so obviously their work is not even very relevant.
Systematic spam by these guys and a handful of other sites drowns out content real users find legitimately interesting.
