Interesting to see what these incidents look like from behind the scenes. It’s strange to think that someone would dislike these posts so much that they’d spend

Interesting to see what these incidents look like from behind the scenes. It’s strange to think that someone would dislike these posts so much that they’d spend money on a DDoS and buy upvotes, knowing they’d deliberately trigger the anti-spam measures. Maybe all of the above is cheaper than I’m thinking, but it’s weird to imagine someone investing money in this. As for the topic of blogs and self-promotion: Two things are simultaneously true for me: 1) I generally like the content that Jeff’s blog contains. It’s fun and interesting. I routinely send links to a few of his blog posts when discussing certain Raspberry Pi topics. 2) His headlines, YouTube thumbnails, and other self promotion tactics are clearly influenced by the same content marketing techniques that spammers use to grab attention: Dramatic titles that imply something bigger, perhaps by omitting key information or choosing deliberately vague wording. YouTube thumbnails that are photoshopped to an extreme and designed to grab attention. Headlines that feel like they’re toeing the line between honest and clickbait about as much as one can get away with, and so on. I can’t entirely fault him for playing the game (“Don’t hate the player, hate the game”) but of all the blogs that get posted to HN regularly, this one would be at the top of my list for suspected self-promotion spam if I didn’t already know his content. I can see why it triggers some people’s spam senses before they read it.