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Unless I'm wrong and this person is relevant to the community, this looks like SEO/copywriter blog spam to me. The old "Here's a list of products/things with a
by CiPHPerCoder 11y ago
Unless I'm wrong and this person is relevant to the community, this looks like SEO/copywriter blog spam to me.
The old "Here's a list of products/things with a 'catchy' headline to incentivize linkbacks and boost my search engine ranking for the words in said 'catchy' headline" trick.
But the contents of the article are kind of empty. And as codeulike said, at least one of the entries is satire. The quality is questionable at best.
Or maybe I haven't had my morning coffee yet and I'm overlooking a crucial detail. Please fill me in if that's what's happening.
- TheLogothete 11y agoBuzzfeed and QZ make regular appearances on HN. I saw Seth Godin once. I saw the daily mail on several occasions. Do not put HN on a piedestal.
- jethro_tell 11y agoSure, but HN isn't facebook (yet), that's why I come here. I think we can also probably point it out here as relevant discussion to the linked content. That's what might give HN a stay of execution on being ALL buzzfeed.
- davidw 11y agoHe's a regular MicroConf attendee who posts his detailed notes about the event, so.... he's real and legit, and seems like a good guy.
- itengelhardt 11y agoYeah. Total SEO spam. Highly optimized for the keyword "list" and it has attracted "links" from such illustrious domains like waybackhn.com :-) In all seriousness: The title was stolen from (IIRC) Michael Buckbee of ExpeditedSSL (great guy) and I consider it a bit tongue-in-cheek - but hey, that doesn't work on the internet apparently.