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Your comment landed kind of spammy, is it a free course?

Dangeranger 9y ago
There are many comments on HN which recommend products/services that are not free. The fact that the course has a cost doesn’t make the comment “spammy”. If the parent posted an affiliate link then that would have indeed been spam. The courses from Pragmatic Studio are indeed excellent. Sometimes quality has a cost, and people should be ok with that. Not everything will be a free resource. Note: I have no affiliation with Pragmatic Studio, they are just great courses.
- scardine 9y ago
  Yeah, I should just ask the price ballpark. It was not meant to criticize the OP but English is not my first language and sometimes I sound judgmental by mistake.
  - Dangeranger 9y ago
    The courses on Pragmatic Studio are $50-80 each depending on the their length, which varies from 8-10 hours each.
- ad-hominem 9y ago
  I assume scardine thought it "landed spammy" because the comment had no content other than "You can buy this thing, offered here", which I think is pretty defensible on his part.
myth_drannon 9y ago
Linking to a paid product is not a spam. If it was a paper book would you complain as well?
- scardine 9y ago
  I can look for a paper book in a library, I can add it to my wish list at Amazon if the book is there, it is not always a hard cash investment. And I love to read good reviews here, they spare me a lot of time I would otherwise use researching a service or product. For me a good review of a paid resource must mention the price ballpark so people have a choice to follow the link or not. May be OP is just a happy customer and not affiliated with them in any way but IMHO the parent comment really sounds like a guerrilla marketing ad for me.
  - nickjj 9y ago
    I think in the context of courses and books, it's more common that they are paid unless noted otherwise. So in this case, if it happened to be a free course, I would have expected the parent comment to specifically mention that it's free, otherwise it's implied to cost money. I'm kind of curious now, how exactly would you have written the parent comment's message?
    - scardine 9y ago
      My first answer to the OP sounded a lot more judgmental than intended. His post is fine although I would try to spare fellow HNrs a visit to the site just search for basic information like duration and how much it costs or how it compares to similar online resources.
      - sena 9y ago
        Well, since his post didn't have that information, it would be nice for you to provide that info and spare fellow HNrs a visit to the site, instead of accusing the poster of being a marketing drone.
        scardine 9y ago
        I could not find price information - looks like they are just collecting emails, but someone in this thread mentioned other courses are in the 50-80 USD ballpark.

There are many comments on HN which recommend products/services that are not free. The fact that the course has a cost doesn’t make the comment “spammy”. If the parent posted an affiliate link then that would have indeed been spam. The courses from Pragmatic Studio are indeed excellent. Sometimes quality has a cost, and people should be ok with that. Not everything will be a free resource. Note: I have no affiliation with Pragmatic Studio, they are just great courses.

scardine 9y ago
Yeah, I should just ask the price ballpark. It was not meant to criticize the OP but English is not my first language and sometimes I sound judgmental by mistake.
- Dangeranger 9y ago
  The courses on Pragmatic Studio are $50-80 each depending on the their length, which varies from 8-10 hours each.
ad-hominem 9y ago
I assume scardine thought it "landed spammy" because the comment had no content other than "You can buy this thing, offered here", which I think is pretty defensible on his part.

myth_drannon 9y ago

Linking to a paid product is not a spam. If it was a paper book would you complain as well?

scardine 9y ago
I can look for a paper book in a library, I can add it to my wish list at Amazon if the book is there, it is not always a hard cash investment. And I love to read good reviews here, they spare me a lot of time I would otherwise use researching a service or product. For me a good review of a paid resource must mention the price ballpark so people have a choice to follow the link or not. May be OP is just a happy customer and not affiliated with them in any way but IMHO the parent comment really sounds like a guerrilla marketing ad for me.
- nickjj 9y ago
  I think in the context of courses and books, it's more common that they are paid unless noted otherwise. So in this case, if it happened to be a free course, I would have expected the parent comment to specifically mention that it's free, otherwise it's implied to cost money. I'm kind of curious now, how exactly would you have written the parent comment's message?
  - scardine 9y ago
    My first answer to the OP sounded a lot more judgmental than intended. His post is fine although I would try to spare fellow HNrs a visit to the site just search for basic information like duration and how much it costs or how it compares to similar online resources.
    - sena 9y ago
      Well, since his post didn't have that information, it would be nice for you to provide that info and spare fellow HNrs a visit to the site, instead of accusing the poster of being a marketing drone.
      - scardine 9y ago
        I could not find price information - looks like they are just collecting emails, but someone in this thread mentioned other courses are in the 50-80 USD ballpark.