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I am now seriously concerned that nautil.us is running a HN upvote ring. If this comment is against the rules I will remove it. There are repeated issues with a
by stevebmark 6y ago
I am now seriously concerned that nautil.us is running a HN upvote ring. If this comment is against the rules I will remove it. There are repeated issues with articles from nautilus on HN:
- they are posted by people who submit a lot of nautilus articles
- the authors of these articles are often freelance writers (as is the case here) whose job is to write income generating content
- nautilus articles are often low quality with little insight, like the article here
- nautilus articles seem to frontpage on a regular cadence around weekends
- nautilus articles have relatively lower engagement in the comments than other articles
- mitchtbaum 6y agoI liked it. If you didn't like it, as Ice-T said, "don't have the player hate the game". Voting rings work now and I could sure use one. If you really want to change the game, take a look at my comments; they're well worth your votes.
- notafraudster 6y agoYou're probably literally right -- this probably is a case of people promoting stuff -- but I personally like Nautilus as a sort of non-technical general science-focused publication. This article isn't one I'm head over heels for, but on the whole I click on the Nautilus stuff that gets posted and it meets my expectations. (Quanta Magazine also has a pretty similar pattern, though their material tends to be more technical)
- DrAwdeOccarim 6y agoI enjoy Nautilus and subscribe to their paper magazines. The articles are aimed at more general audiences that also want some meat. Sure, they self promote and try to drive traffic but I have never felt they are gaming the system.