Since Steve Pavlina makes something like a million dollars per year on his magical blog, he has credibility when it comes to making money. The real question to

Since Steve Pavlina makes something like a million dollars per year on his magical blog, he has credibility when it comes to making money. The real question to ask about Steve Pavlina though is whether his blog posts are designed to help YOU make money, or to help HIM make money. He typically doesn't provide objective evidence indicating you will be helped. And if he wanted to, he COULD get this evidence. So for instance he claims that using various magical powers you can make money. He could invest $50,000 in running scientific trials of these methods and objectively prove to his readers that it works. THAT would be worthy of Hacker News. But if Steve Pavlina is fair game to be quoted on HN, I am gonna start quoting Jesus. Cause they have about the same level of credibility.