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Would you say the same about medium.com too? Or any site that allow people to sign up and create blogs/articles?

PaulHoule 5y ago
dev.to covers a domain in which it is possible to be right (passes the unit test, is accepted by the customer) or wrong. That makes it ring more hollow than Medium does, because much of Medium is rants and musings that could be right, wrong or "not even wrong" and it wouldn't matter. I don't go to either dev.to or Medium if I can help it. Do they even offer free reads at Medium anymore?
- pier25 5y ago
  > Do they even offer free reads at Medium anymore? Sometimes. If you disable cookies for medium.com it annoys you much less.
ev1 5y ago
Honestly? Probably. I flag a huge amount of medium posts too. Currently the top few are pretty obviously spam, though. I do vouch them out of spam also. above-the-fold of domain=dev.to, page 1: - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=euirqe https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=euirqe has been posting nothing but stepsize (paid service) and referral links in blog posts for them for two years. - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio is a crap, insecure tutorial on how to set a variable in python with a donate to me link as large as the tutorial, with multiple resubmissions The vast majority of the other posts are basically non-interesting or barely-technical stolen content from stackoverflow, spam blogs, amazon affiliate links hidden in a blog post, undisclosed + no "show hn" self promotion.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
  > - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio is a crap, insecure tutorial on how to set a variable in python with a donate to me link as large as the tutorial, with multiple resubmissions Wow...that "tutorial"... It's not even formatted correctly. It will throw a syntax error before it even runs because of the wrong indentation.
  - ev1 5y ago
    I just realised that it's a 15 year old so I might be a bit harsh, but it's also actual hashtag and keyword spam to pollute search results (#buygme), doesn't work, violates multiple python styles/formats, doesn't have whitespace which is critical for python, ... The donation button is kind of the icing on the cake for this.
    - iudqnolq 5y ago
      I'd say that's sort of beside the point. Sure it looks hideous, but it's also brain dead. Comparing against a hard coded password works for some things, but highly sensitive information in a scripting language really isn't one of them. If you wrote that beautifully it'd be just as stupid.
tlb 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medium.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medium.com Medium.com is only about half spam by the same metric. Despite both having open sign-ups, they have significantly different average quality.
- arvinsim 5y ago
  Sure but medium owns your content. Dev.to retains your ownership of your content. But I guess for the purposes of spam discussion, that is irrelevant.

dev.to covers a domain in which it is possible to be right (passes the unit test, is accepted by the customer) or wrong. That makes it ring more hollow than Medium does, because much of Medium is rants and musings that could be right, wrong or "not even wrong" and it wouldn't matter. I don't go to either dev.to or Medium if I can help it. Do they even offer free reads at Medium anymore?

pier25 5y ago
> Do they even offer free reads at Medium anymore? Sometimes. If you disable cookies for medium.com it annoys you much less.

ev1 5y ago

Honestly? Probably. I flag a huge amount of medium posts too. Currently the top few are pretty obviously spam, though. I do vouch them out of spam also. above-the-fold of domain=dev.to, page 1: - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=euirqe https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=euirqe has been posting nothing but stepsize (paid service) and referral links in blog posts for them for two years. - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio is a crap, insecure tutorial on how to set a variable in python with a donate to me link as large as the tutorial, with multiple resubmissions The vast majority of the other posts are basically non-interesting or barely-technical stolen content from stackoverflow, spam blogs, amazon affiliate links hidden in a blog post, undisclosed + no "show hn" self promotion.

Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
> - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VECTOR3Studio is a crap, insecure tutorial on how to set a variable in python with a donate to me link as large as the tutorial, with multiple resubmissions Wow...that "tutorial"... It's not even formatted correctly. It will throw a syntax error before it even runs because of the wrong indentation.
- ev1 5y ago
  I just realised that it's a 15 year old so I might be a bit harsh, but it's also actual hashtag and keyword spam to pollute search results (#buygme), doesn't work, violates multiple python styles/formats, doesn't have whitespace which is critical for python, ... The donation button is kind of the icing on the cake for this.
  - iudqnolq 5y ago
    I'd say that's sort of beside the point. Sure it looks hideous, but it's also brain dead. Comparing against a hard coded password works for some things, but highly sensitive information in a scripting language really isn't one of them. If you wrote that beautifully it'd be just as stupid.

tlb 5y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medium.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medium.com Medium.com is only about half spam by the same metric. Despite both having open sign-ups, they have significantly different average quality.

arvinsim 5y ago
Sure but medium owns your content. Dev.to retains your ownership of your content. But I guess for the purposes of spam discussion, that is irrelevant.