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I think HN could easily solve it - they don't need anything from these sites, a moderator could just replace their URLs and it doesn't matter if the content far
by benologist 14y ago
I think HN could easily solve it - they don't need anything from these sites, a moderator could just replace their URLs and it doesn't matter if the content farms don't like it - it's not like digg and reddit where their widgets made it some sort of (probably massively lopsided) traffic and link exchange.
- malandrew 14y agoI am so in favor of this approach. If HN wants to maintain high quality, it needs to make a commitment to primary sources and ban secondary sources. Articles that are replies to articles should be fine, but articles that summarize other others really have to go unless they (1) do a remarkable job of shining like on the subject or (2) provide a novel viewpoint/opinion amongst the summary. We should call seo spam summaries "spummary" or "spammary".