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How Matt Cutts Used Stack Overflow/Hacker News In Redefining "Content Farms"
- mycroftiv 16y agoThere is a lot of justice to the points made in this article. That said, I also believe that scraper sites duplicating other content are a lot more pernicious than low quality original content. Also, algorithmically recognizing mediocre content is almost impossible, and actively discriminating against specific media companies is a dangerously slippery slope.
- mycroftiv 16y agoHas this article been excluded somehow from appearing in the main Hacker News feed? It is buried very far down compared to other stories that have received less votes within the same time period. It seems to me to be a very careful analysis of an issue that has attracted a lot of discussion. Is there some sort of HN policy against meta-discussion of the site's role within the tech ecosystem?
- donnafontenot 16y agoThat's a really good question, but I have a feeling no one is going to give an answer either way. Sure seems like it though, I noticed the same thing earlier, when it was only an hour old.