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Thank you. I was really frustrated reading the article of this post as it was very vague about the actual scam.
by binthere 10y ago
Thank you. I was really frustrated reading the article of this post as it was very vague about the actual scam.
- sna1l 10y agoThese clickbaity articles have become way more common on HN
- taftster 10y agoThese clickbaity articles have become way more common on the web. There's rarely anyone writing quality content for the sake of the content anymore. It's all just glorified hyperlink farming and ad impressions.
- eropple 10y agoWell...yeah. That's what pays. (And this is why I subscribe to media that does support long-form journalism and kit out journalists with the tools--and the paychecks--necessary to make it happen. Subscribe as in pay-money-to-on-a-monthly-basis. It's the only way it survives.)
- rhizome 10y agoThere's rarely anyone writing quality content for the sake of the content anymore. That may be so, but let's place the blame accurately: the writer didn't submit the article to HN.
- praneshp 10y agoWell, if we get wsj links, half of HN complains. If we get links from decent websites that have adblocker-blockers, the other half complains.
- ouid 10y agoI complain for both, so I believe you're double counting.
- elastic_church 10y agofinally buckled down and got a WSJ subscription I tried to be clever and use California's library system which has WSJ for free, because I thought "hey its 2017 library databases like ProQuest wouldn't still suck right" well it was horrible like I just got jettisoned back onto Blackboard in the mid 2000s, so after that I just bought the WSJ subscription.
- praneshp 10y agoLuckily, my wife is in grad school. She set me up with WSJ and NYTimes till the end of 2018.
- zipwitch 10y agoThere is quality content out there, much of it for free. It's just hard to find, particularly via search engine.
- ep103 10y agolongform.org
- _audakel 10y agoThe best quality content I find is almost always someones personal, non commercial writeup. often times this is something as simple as the comment section of a article, or their own blog. They put no ads and do it because they care about the subject and care about their reputation so they make sure its not spamy. I have alwasy hoped for a micropayment system I could use to reward this behavior.
- CalRobert 10y agoWhy, it's as though those organizations that didn't resort to link farming and choking their page with ads went out of business because everybody wanted their journalists to work for free!
- jacquesm 10y agoEnd users have been conditioned for two decades that everything online is free. The advertising industry wasn't pushed by end users to become more and more aggressive until ad blockers became viable and a must. Nobody wanted journalists to work for free.
- ep103 10y agolongform.org
- finid 10y agoWriting "quality content" takes time. with adblockers the norm, good writers have been put out of business. It's like what Uber and co did to cab drivers.
- tyingq 10y agoMaybe a mod should change the link to the justice.gov post I linked to in the parent? I don't see any articles out there that add anything substantial.