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1) Post fluff blog post about how cruises are great places to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416. G

1) Post fluff blog post about how cruises are great places to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416. Get upvoted. 2) Follow up with link to the website you built to find cruise deals. 3) Profit. How much are you making off this, Kirubakaran?

dangrossman 13y ago
This site was linked from that post, which is probably where kirubakaran found it. I'm not sure why you think he's making money for sharing Tynan's link. Are you suggesting that, while submitting links to HN is free, he paid off two different people to submit the blog post and the link to Cruise Sheet separately? Why?
- deleted_account 13y ago
  Because it's such a maddeningly blatant shill post which, out of context, would be considered the worst type of spam: a single link to a "Find hidden hot cruise deals" site. And in the context of the post it's not much better. You know where I like to work? From the deck of a cruise ship! No shit, I'd love to be on a cruise ship too. "You know where I like to code? From the beaches of Aruba!" Followed up by a link to an Aruba travel deals site. No. Extended rant: my frustration equally applies to Tynan's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 - nothing personal per se, save for the obviousness of the article I ham-handedly parodied above. These class of ex post facto blog posts authored solely for self promotion seem like the bread and butter of HN. He build a website to sell cruise ship deals and now he _really_ wants everyone to know how great it is to [insert relevant occupation] from the deck of a cruise ship. I really need to start thinking of HN as "Hustler News" instead of "Hacker News" I think it'd alleviate the cognitive dissonance I got going on.

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1) Post fluff blog post about how cruises are great places to work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416. G

by deleted_account 13y ago

dangrossman 13y ago
This site was linked from that post, which is probably where kirubakaran found it. I'm not sure why you think he's making money for sharing Tynan's link. Are you suggesting that, while submitting links to HN is free, he paid off two different people to submit the blog post and the link to Cruise Sheet separately? Why?
- deleted_account 13y ago
  Because it's such a maddeningly blatant shill post which, out of context, would be considered the worst type of spam: a single link to a "Find hidden hot cruise deals" site. And in the context of the post it's not much better. You know where I like to work? From the deck of a cruise ship! No shit, I'd love to be on a cruise ship too. "You know where I like to code? From the beaches of Aruba!" Followed up by a link to an Aruba travel deals site. No. Extended rant: my frustration equally applies to Tynan's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416 - nothing personal per se, save for the obviousness of the article I ham-handedly parodied above. These class of ex post facto blog posts authored solely for self promotion seem like the bread and butter of HN. He build a website to sell cruise ship deals and now he _really_ wants everyone to know how great it is to [insert relevant occupation] from the deck of a cruise ship. I really need to start thinking of HN as "Hustler News" instead of "Hacker News" I think it'd alleviate the cognitive dissonance I got going on.