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i would guess that a full %50-%70 of HN content is content marketing of some sort (either for a startup or for someone's personal brand). so many prescriptions

i would guess that a full %50-%70 of HN content is content marketing of some sort (either for a startup or for someone's personal brand). so many prescriptions on HN but no ban on this kind of content. makes you think.

tylerhou 7y ago
dang? has explicitly stated that content marketing is allowed on HN; it just has to satisfy everything else required for a post (intellectually interesting, etc.).
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  HN occasionally has interesting submarine stories. But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a submarine is only a submarine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20728690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20728690 http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- dang 7y ago
  Right, here are two things I wrote about that on days when there was time to write about that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20617732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20617732
TeMPOraL 7y ago
The content has to meet certain quality standard to survive here. Most content marketing dones't, but some does, sometimes. And when it does, you may as well leave it up - per https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/.
- keanzu 7y ago
  Wow, that's fantastic, best xkcd ever!
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    Nice try :).
    - keanzu 7y ago
      Oooh, oh, are you kidding me?! This is the meanest and most hilarious thing anyone has ever said to me on HN! Two words and I got accused of being a spam bot making a "not constructive" and/or "unhelpful" comment! Destroyed! I tip my hat to you good sir. I have been roasted, but well.
- michaelbuckbee 7y ago
  Better that companies are putting dollars to creating tutorials, education, helping people directly instead of more banner ads.
dang 7y ago
From an HN point of view the question is whether it's interesting or not.

tylerhou 7y ago

dang? has explicitly stated that content marketing is allowed on HN; it just has to satisfy everything else required for a post (intellectually interesting, etc.).

DonHopkins 7y ago
HN occasionally has interesting submarine stories. But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a submarine is only a submarine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20728690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20728690 http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
dang 7y ago
Right, here are two things I wrote about that on days when there was time to write about that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20617732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20617732

TeMPOraL 7y ago

The content has to meet certain quality standard to survive here. Most content marketing dones't, but some does, sometimes. And when it does, you may as well leave it up - per https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/.

keanzu 7y ago
Wow, that's fantastic, best xkcd ever!
- TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Nice try :).
  - keanzu 7y ago
    Oooh, oh, are you kidding me?! This is the meanest and most hilarious thing anyone has ever said to me on HN! Two words and I got accused of being a spam bot making a "not constructive" and/or "unhelpful" comment! Destroyed! I tip my hat to you good sir. I have been roasted, but well.
michaelbuckbee 7y ago
Better that companies are putting dollars to creating tutorials, education, helping people directly instead of more banner ads.

dang 7y ago

From an HN point of view the question is whether it's interesting or not.