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From the HN guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. lowglow ap
by benjamincburns 13y ago
From the HN guidelines:
Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports
on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
lowglow appears to be an experienced member here, so maybe I'm missing something, but this feels a little blogspammy to me.
- jluxenberg 13y agolowglow is Dan Gailey, who runs Techendo.
- lowglow 13y agoThis is true. I do post my opinions and share my blog posts through techendo, then I do share them here.
- benjamincburns 13y agoYes, I saw that before I commented. I'm Ben Burns. I run benjamincburns.com. If I'd made this exact post there and submitted it, would it have been voted to the front page (if only briefly, apparently)? That's an actual question. Rephrased, am I misinterpreting the guidelines, or is Dan's status as a YC alumnus buying some leeway? Also in the interest of full disclosure, I have a personal pet peeve against editorial news aggregators where editors/authors are expected to churn out article after article in an effort to profit from long tail traffic without adding anything meaningful to the content they aggregate (read: steal). Of course there's a broad spectrum of aggregator sites, and I wasn't familiar with Techendo, which isn't at all in the category I'm describing, before I saw this post. Seeing this very brief article as my first introduction flipped that "oh great, another shitty Gawker Media clone" flag, and I instantly wondered why it was on the front page. So Dan, I'm not saying that you suck, or your site sucks, or even that your post sucks, but I am wondering aloud about how the community here works.
- jimktrains2 13y agoWait, but when people complain about titles and say that the person should write a blog post and post that, this is the response they'll get?