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I found it interesting that the article linked here is from Medium, but it originated on Buzzfeed, where the author is employed. Does HN restrict submissions f
by morganvachon 10y ago
I found it interesting that the article linked here is from Medium, but it originated on Buzzfeed, where the author is employed.
Does HN restrict submissions from usually click-baity sites like Buzzfeed?
- dang 10y agobuzzfeed.com and medium.com are in the same category of sites, IIRC. These get mildly penalized, but there are a bunch of things that can override the penalty. This is how we try to deal with sites that produce a lot of dreck but also valuable, substantive pieces. A lot of big media websites fall in this category. In this case it was just a coincidence that the post showed up with a medium.com URL. We'll probably segment medium.com URLs one level down instead of at the site level, since it's really a bunch of different mini-sites. But we haven't gotten around to that yet. (github.com is another one of those, and there are a few more.)
- morganvachon 10y agoThank you for breaking that down. I generally stay away from sites like Buzzfeed, but I've also seen some great in-depth pieces from them.
- abstractbeliefs 10y agoBuzzfeed is having a kind of half revolution in what they do. While the main of what they produce is still clickbait listicles, they seem to have hired a bunch of heavyweight investigative journalists who are producing really interesting pieces.