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I see you point. Certainly, if a blogger is constantly spamming HN and other social news sites it's kind of a annoying. On the other hand, that's the whole poi
by diN0bot 18y ago
I see you point. Certainly, if a blogger is constantly spamming HN and other social news sites it's kind of a annoying.
On the other hand, that's the whole point of social aggregation: to democratically filter the good stuff to the top. Some variation in submission is good, as long as there's not too much off-topic spam.
It's a hard balance.
Social news sites are the perfect venue for (non-advertising) bloggers to self-advertise. If someone thinks their own blog post is relevant, why not post it to hacker news? Why shouldn't a blogger think all his articles are relevant?
- justlearning 18y agoI didn't say that a blogger shouldn't link to any of his posts. Of course every blogger has a interesting bend of thought which at time he/she feels the need to have feedback. The spam is when "every" post comes in.
- kulkarnic 18y agoPerhaps we could have a filter that detects if a particular user consistently submits links from a particular domain only. I wonder if it'll work (maybe it targets too uncommon a special-case). Really, we do need a way to custom-query news.yc so we can see the effects of prototype filters. Any way to do it already in existence?