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Why are Atlas Obscura articles tolerated on HN? They often lack substance when compared to more upstream sources and invariably come packaged with social-media
by legodt 10y ago
Why are Atlas Obscura articles tolerated on HN? They often lack substance when compared to more upstream sources and invariably come packaged with social-media ready clickbaity titles.
- criddell 10y agoIf we, as a community, didn't want Atlas Obscura articles, we wouldn't be upvoting them.
- dang 10y agoIt belongs to a class of sites that produce both interesting original content and blogspam, i.e. low-quality ripoffs of other sources. The present post unfortunately was the latter, which is why we eventually changed the URL to the BBC piece it was lifted from. This category of sites is problematic for HN. We want their best articles, so we don't ban them (though we do typically penalize them by default). But we definitely don't want their dreck. One thing's for sure: if we don't notice that an article is lifted from another source and/or spammy, users will. In that case, please let us know. We're as eager as you are to have HN link to the best story on a topic. The best way to let us know is by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. We can't read all the comments here but we do read all the emails.
- legodt 10y agoI had no idea that certain classes of sites have default penalties ascribed to them here, very cool. Thanks for the explanation!