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This is an absurd comment. If my grandma shows me the menu out the front of her favourite restaurant, she should be arrested for peddling advertising? She is do

This is an absurd comment. If my grandma shows me the menu out the front of her favourite restaurant, she should be arrested for peddling advertising? She is doing unpaid advertising for the restaurant. Advertising is an emotive subject for the HN crowd. Many of the start up can't really survive without resorting to advertising. Most of the ShowHN posts, blogs, tweets etc are some form of advertising. Should these be banned as well?

Intermernet 11y ago
A personal recommendation isn't advertising. An impersonal recommendation is. As to the ShowHN posts, blogs, tweets etc, you actually choose to read the first two, and If I was on Twitter and someone I followed kept advertising at me, I'd stop following them. The point being argued here is that advertising agencies have, for quite a while, felt that they can push ads at you without you choosing to be advertised at.
- rvense 11y ago
  Ads are impersonal and unsolicited. I think the last point is key. Someone flogging their site here is a grey area, of course, but HN is a community and there are guidelines and policies and ultimately it still feels like it belongs to the people who use it. There are many places in my daily life where I have to go that feel more and more like they belong to advertisers (commerce) instead of the people who live there. At least on the web you can block the ads.
chippy 11y ago
So, let me get this clear. You: Would could choose to live your life and never see another advertisement. You do believe it is technologically feasible to live as a human being without ever seeing an advertisement. But you think the absurdity is due to the enforcement
- yitchelle 11y ago
  The only chance of living as a human being without ever seeing/hearing/reading an advertisement is if I relocate to the middle of the Amazon jungle by myself. My point is the this type of enforcement is futile. Advertisement is part of our lives if we want to exchange what I have to what you have.

Intermernet 11y ago

A personal recommendation isn't advertising. An impersonal recommendation is. As to the ShowHN posts, blogs, tweets etc, you actually choose to read the first two, and If I was on Twitter and someone I followed kept advertising at me, I'd stop following them. The point being argued here is that advertising agencies have, for quite a while, felt that they can push ads at you without you choosing to be advertised at.

rvense 11y ago
Ads are impersonal and unsolicited. I think the last point is key. Someone flogging their site here is a grey area, of course, but HN is a community and there are guidelines and policies and ultimately it still feels like it belongs to the people who use it. There are many places in my daily life where I have to go that feel more and more like they belong to advertisers (commerce) instead of the people who live there. At least on the web you can block the ads.

chippy 11y ago

So, let me get this clear. You: Would could choose to live your life and never see another advertisement. You do believe it is technologically feasible to live as a human being without ever seeing an advertisement. But you think the absurdity is due to the enforcement

yitchelle 11y ago
The only chance of living as a human being without ever seeing/hearing/reading an advertisement is if I relocate to the middle of the Amazon jungle by myself. My point is the this type of enforcement is futile. Advertisement is part of our lives if we want to exchange what I have to what you have.