These articles are advertisements. It's a combination of growth hacking, seo, recruiting, etc for companies that wouldn't otherwise be relevant here so they fo

These articles are advertisements. It's a combination of growth hacking, seo, recruiting, etc for companies that wouldn't otherwise be relevant here so they force it. Exploitation is a good word for it - the submitters often have no actual interest in this community except for what they can take from it. We get a lot of it now. Flagging helps keep them off the front page depending on how many coworkers or friends the company has jacking their votes up.