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Blogspam. Original content here: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/197675/is-there-any-way-to-get-faster-at-solving-bugs-ive-just-had-a-warning-fro

Blogspam. Original content here: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/197675/is-there-any-way-to-get-faster-at-solving-bugs-ive-just-had-a-warning-from-my http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/197675/is-the...

seanmcdirmid 13y ago
Ars republishes good SE articles from time to time. It is not about link spam, but rather about promoting SE on Ars, and vice versa. I think this approach is quite reasonable. I don't think they give a f*ck that someone on hackernews happens to notice it on Ars rather than SE.
- eropple 13y ago
  It really is pretty much spam. It's pageview-bait at its finest. (And that's one of the main reasons I've filtered Ars's non-forum stuff, I've been a subscriber there for years but I'm not giving them pageviews for bad articles anymore.)
  - seanmcdirmid 13y ago
    Ars writers have been very honest about their use of pagination. Sometimes, I guess it is to get more hits, often its just a way of breaking up the story and to reduce page load time. If you are a subscriber, don't you get access to PDF or something like that? I find Ars to be one of the better web publications out there. Until theverge came along, I would say they were bar none the best.
    - 001sky 13y ago
      often its just a way of breaking up the story and to reduce page load time It's 2013. Articles are text. This is silly.
      - seanmcdirmid 13y ago
        Articles are text with huge images. Believe it or not, a page still loads slowly for those of us in 2nd world countries behind great firewalls. Also, I think pagerank still takes page load times into account, so putting everything into one giant long page would actually hurt their google rankings.
    - reginaldjcooper 13y ago
      I say SO on Ars is not blogspam because unlike, say, most everything on Lifehacker, the content on Ars is not a thin veneer of bullshit/fluff designed to position an ad between the user and actual content.
  - ako 13y ago
    How is it different from hackernews? They are using content from another website to create traffic and content on their own, pretty much the same thing hacker news is doing.
- benologist 13y ago
  It's not about promoting SE on Ars, it's about free content that pulls from social sites. Social sites including HN matter so much to these sites that many of them (not Ars) including media giants have been caught spamming them many, many, many, many times to pull the traffic, the SEO link juice and the viral spread of their shitty rewrites, rewordings, and repostings.
itafroma 13y ago
To put some context on this: Ars Technica is republishing this under the full cooperation of Stack Exchange in a capacity that goes beyond simply obeying the letter of the CC-BY-SA license on the content. When it first started a couple of years ago, the agreement (as it was explained to us) was basically Ars Technica gets new content in areas they don't normally have good coverage in (in this case, workplace issues for programmers) while Stack Exchange otensibly gets more exposure. The actual content creators (question askers and answerers) are not compensated in any way beyond the normal SE gamification features that kick in when a question becomes popular on the network. I don't know if Ars Technica now decides on their own what questions to feature, but when the partnership started, Stack Exchange itself was actually deciding which questions to feature. N.B. SE also had a Lifehacker content-sharing agreement a couple of years back[1], but I don't know if that's still going on. [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/119398/do-lifehacker-and-stack-exchange-have-some-sort-of-partnership-why-is-lifehacke http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/119398/do-lifehacker...
- readme 13y ago
  It may be fancy/legit, but it is blogspam.
suyash 13y ago
Thanks for posting the original link to SE, it has so much more valuable content that garbage articles on Ars..
coldtea 13y ago
Can we discuss what's said in the post, instead of adding meta comment spam?

seanmcdirmid 13y ago

Ars republishes good SE articles from time to time. It is not about link spam, but rather about promoting SE on Ars, and vice versa. I think this approach is quite reasonable. I don't think they give a f*ck that someone on hackernews happens to notice it on Ars rather than SE.

eropple 13y ago
It really is pretty much spam. It's pageview-bait at its finest. (And that's one of the main reasons I've filtered Ars's non-forum stuff, I've been a subscriber there for years but I'm not giving them pageviews for bad articles anymore.)
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago
  Ars writers have been very honest about their use of pagination. Sometimes, I guess it is to get more hits, often its just a way of breaking up the story and to reduce page load time. If you are a subscriber, don't you get access to PDF or something like that? I find Ars to be one of the better web publications out there. Until theverge came along, I would say they were bar none the best.
  - 001sky 13y ago
    often its just a way of breaking up the story and to reduce page load time It's 2013. Articles are text. This is silly.
    - seanmcdirmid 13y ago
      Articles are text with huge images. Believe it or not, a page still loads slowly for those of us in 2nd world countries behind great firewalls. Also, I think pagerank still takes page load times into account, so putting everything into one giant long page would actually hurt their google rankings.
  - reginaldjcooper 13y ago
    I say SO on Ars is not blogspam because unlike, say, most everything on Lifehacker, the content on Ars is not a thin veneer of bullshit/fluff designed to position an ad between the user and actual content.
- ako 13y ago
  How is it different from hackernews? They are using content from another website to create traffic and content on their own, pretty much the same thing hacker news is doing.
benologist 13y ago
It's not about promoting SE on Ars, it's about free content that pulls from social sites. Social sites including HN matter so much to these sites that many of them (not Ars) including media giants have been caught spamming them many, many, many, many times to pull the traffic, the SEO link juice and the viral spread of their shitty rewrites, rewordings, and repostings.

itafroma 13y ago

To put some context on this: Ars Technica is republishing this under the full cooperation of Stack Exchange in a capacity that goes beyond simply obeying the letter of the CC-BY-SA license on the content. When it first started a couple of years ago, the agreement (as it was explained to us) was basically Ars Technica gets new content in areas they don't normally have good coverage in (in this case, workplace issues for programmers) while Stack Exchange otensibly gets more exposure. The actual content creators (question askers and answerers) are not compensated in any way beyond the normal SE gamification features that kick in when a question becomes popular on the network. I don't know if Ars Technica now decides on their own what questions to feature, but when the partnership started, Stack Exchange itself was actually deciding which questions to feature. N.B. SE also had a Lifehacker content-sharing agreement a couple of years back[1], but I don't know if that's still going on. [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/119398/do-lifehacker-and-stack-exchange-have-some-sort-of-partnership-why-is-lifehacke http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/119398/do-lifehacker...

readme 13y ago
It may be fancy/legit, but it is blogspam.

suyash 13y ago

Thanks for posting the original link to SE, it has so much more valuable content that garbage articles on Ars..

coldtea 13y ago

Can we discuss what's said in the post, instead of adding meta comment spam?