3 ms·

Looks like the answers subdomain is running the Mahalo answers code that they're using to create all those spam q&a sites.

jasonmcalacanis 16y ago
We are not creating spam sites. sigh.... we are creating vertical Q&A sites like www.ipad-answers.com. These vertical sites are doing well and starting to build audience. Please don't fall for the SEO rhetoric.
- moe 16y ago
  Have you ever considered that when a large number of people calls what you do "spam", that it might indeed be just that?
  - jasonmcalacanis 16y ago
    well, if those people are SEOs who are on jihad against me, no, I don't listen to them. I mean, every comment i make is voted down instantly on HN. It doesn't matter what I say or do. I could stop the BP oil spill and it would get voted down!
    - jayliew 16y ago
      so far none of the few comments here have mentioned it, so I will. It's by and large a difficult task to neatly label anybody into distinct and non-overlapping categories (this person is 'good', 'bad', 'whatever'), simply because there's so many criteria you can use to, well .. when forming an impression of a person. I don't know everything else that Jason does, but I have sort of read the stories / drama, and I'm not commenting on any of that. The one thing I think Jason deserves credit for, however small, is for yanking HackADay at the very last minute from the sale because he knew it would get shut down by the to-be-new-owners if was sold. He could just have sold it and not worry about the life and death of HaD, but he did not.
    - moe 16y ago
      I mean, every comment i make is voted down instantly on HN. It doesn't matter what I say or do. I could stop the BP oil spill and it would get voted down! Perhaps people would like you again if you cut out the painful hypocrisy for once. I think you're a smart person. You're well aware of the name of your game. Do you think you can evade the google ban for longer if you maintain your constant, vocal denial? Or what's the reason for your, frankly, absurd statements that predictably get you nothing but downvotes and critique? "Vertical Q&A site" is just off the scale on the bullshit meter, and you know that.

jasonmcalacanis 16y ago

We are not creating spam sites. sigh.... we are creating vertical Q&A sites like www.ipad-answers.com. These vertical sites are doing well and starting to build audience. Please don't fall for the SEO rhetoric.

moe 16y ago
Have you ever considered that when a large number of people calls what you do "spam", that it might indeed be just that?
- jasonmcalacanis 16y ago
  well, if those people are SEOs who are on jihad against me, no, I don't listen to them. I mean, every comment i make is voted down instantly on HN. It doesn't matter what I say or do. I could stop the BP oil spill and it would get voted down!
  - jayliew 16y ago
    so far none of the few comments here have mentioned it, so I will. It's by and large a difficult task to neatly label anybody into distinct and non-overlapping categories (this person is 'good', 'bad', 'whatever'), simply because there's so many criteria you can use to, well .. when forming an impression of a person. I don't know everything else that Jason does, but I have sort of read the stories / drama, and I'm not commenting on any of that. The one thing I think Jason deserves credit for, however small, is for yanking HackADay at the very last minute from the sale because he knew it would get shut down by the to-be-new-owners if was sold. He could just have sold it and not worry about the life and death of HaD, but he did not.
  - moe 16y ago
    I mean, every comment i make is voted down instantly on HN. It doesn't matter what I say or do. I could stop the BP oil spill and it would get voted down! Perhaps people would like you again if you cut out the painful hypocrisy for once. I think you're a smart person. You're well aware of the name of your game. Do you think you can evade the google ban for longer if you maintain your constant, vocal denial? Or what's the reason for your, frankly, absurd statements that predictably get you nothing but downvotes and critique? "Vertical Q&A site" is just off the scale on the bullshit meter, and you know that.