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Jealousy, slippery slope, somehow putting a bias on the person collecting money. In some cases, in other places, the fact that people claim to donate the money
by larrys 14y ago
Jealousy, slippery slope, somehow putting a bias on the person collecting money. In some cases, in other places, the fact that people claim to donate the money to charity seems to dampen the negatives which doesn't make much sense.
I personally don't have an issue with it and I find it annoying when people (on blogs for example) point out that a link isn't an affiliate link in a "I'm to good for this" fashion. As if money isn't important or they are above it all.
Irony is of course that a large part of HN is being a shill [1] for YC.
[1] I don't have a problem with that either even though the use of the word shill might indicate that.
- throwaway420 14y agoI'm not sure why, but I agree that there is sometimes a bit of a weird bias on HN against making money online - which is odd for a community of people who are ostensibly devoting a good deal of their attention to making side-projects that make money. What bothers me the most about this is the people that brag about using ad blockers to block ads and then use the same types of crappy ads to monetize their own sites. That's sort of an aside though, and doesn't apply to everybody. It's just a bit of a weird bit of hypocrisy that I've seen in some folks that is modestly irritating. (I don't use ad blockers. I just refuse to visit shitty sites that load up way too many low-quality ads)