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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
by 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 agoI 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 agoI'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.