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Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques? Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger,

Why is it always that people who overuse sneaky tactics are the first to complain about others using same techniques? Copied from the article: "Tags: blogger, Bloggers, browser, digg, diggbar, engadget, entrepreneur, follow me, frame spam, frame spammers, frame spamming, framebars, frames, framing.... " (this is only 2 of 7 lines of "tags")

stcredzero 18y ago
They're upset they didn't think of it first.
adammarkey 18y ago
Agreed. It's a great example of the saying: "It takes one to know one."
josefresco 18y ago
What does tagging have anything to do with this article? It's HIS site, HIS tags, he can come up with whatever tags he wants, which contribute to his own custom tag cloud. Not seeing the connection here sorry.
- knightinblue 18y ago
  The connection is this - tomuse has been blogging for a while. Had a few hits here and there, but nothing major. He wrote an article about how bad the diggbar is, and we all agreed with it. Suddenly he has a hit on his hands, and decided to milk it for all it's worth. Take a look at his homepage - it's all about diggbar/frame spamming etc. He throws a 'Hey HNer, if you agree with me, then subscribe to me' banner up top and adds a thousand tags to his post, hoping people will link to his posts. He then figures if people hate the diggbar on HN, then other people must be feeling the same way and goes to town with pushing the links to his posts all over the web - from techcrunch to mashable to readwriteweb.........take a look at the comments section on those respective blog posts dealing with diggbar. You'll see this guy all over them. Basically, he's pushing his own agenda/site/blog under the guise of fighting a revolution for the masses. And this is not the first time - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VizionQuest http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VizionQuest He hasn't submitted a single link from another site. It wouldn't matter if it's elsewhere, but that's not cool on HN. HN is about sharing information, mostly foreign. Do you see anyone else submitting links to their own site repeatedly?
  - RossM 18y ago
    Just in case they're all stuffed in a meta keywords tag too.
- rarestnews 18y ago
  The connection is that both try to leverage technologies that are frowned upon by community, but THIS site complains about it ad nauseum (visit main page). (Also, as pointed in other comments - it uses "link cloaking", affiliate links, sneaky referrer banner, etc, yet he still complains about others using sneaky tactics. It's just a full of hipocrisy trick to get readers and maybe some green)

stcredzero 18y ago

They're upset they didn't think of it first.

adammarkey 18y ago

Agreed. It's a great example of the saying: "It takes one to know one."

josefresco 18y ago

What does tagging have anything to do with this article? It's HIS site, HIS tags, he can come up with whatever tags he wants, which contribute to his own custom tag cloud. Not seeing the connection here sorry.

knightinblue 18y ago
The connection is this - tomuse has been blogging for a while. Had a few hits here and there, but nothing major. He wrote an article about how bad the diggbar is, and we all agreed with it. Suddenly he has a hit on his hands, and decided to milk it for all it's worth. Take a look at his homepage - it's all about diggbar/frame spamming etc. He throws a 'Hey HNer, if you agree with me, then subscribe to me' banner up top and adds a thousand tags to his post, hoping people will link to his posts. He then figures if people hate the diggbar on HN, then other people must be feeling the same way and goes to town with pushing the links to his posts all over the web - from techcrunch to mashable to readwriteweb.........take a look at the comments section on those respective blog posts dealing with diggbar. You'll see this guy all over them. Basically, he's pushing his own agenda/site/blog under the guise of fighting a revolution for the masses. And this is not the first time - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VizionQuest http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VizionQuest He hasn't submitted a single link from another site. It wouldn't matter if it's elsewhere, but that's not cool on HN. HN is about sharing information, mostly foreign. Do you see anyone else submitting links to their own site repeatedly?
- RossM 18y ago
  Just in case they're all stuffed in a meta keywords tag too.
rarestnews 18y ago
The connection is that both try to leverage technologies that are frowned upon by community, but THIS site complains about it ad nauseum (visit main page). (Also, as pointed in other comments - it uses "link cloaking", affiliate links, sneaky referrer banner, etc, yet he still complains about others using sneaky tactics. It's just a full of hipocrisy trick to get readers and maybe some green)