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Sorry, I've read leftlanenews.com for a few years now and never thought of it as blogspam. Not affiliated with them in any way shape or form... If you could sh

Sorry, I've read leftlanenews.com for a few years now and never thought of it as blogspam. Not affiliated with them in any way shape or form... If you could share guidelines of how you determine blogspam would be helpful, as I regarded these guys as a credible car-related news source. Edit: To clarify, I view this site as a minor competitor to something like Edmunds or KBB (for their new car stuff, not the used pricing book).

dang 13y ago
By "blogspam" I didn't mean that the entire site was junk, or that you were spamming HN. I'm using that word in a much narrower sense, for an article that is merely a summary of some other original source. In such cases the HN guidelines call for submitting the original source instead. Many tech sites consist of nothing but such short summary articles lifted from elsewhere. When a lot of those get submitted to HN, we ban the site. But I didn't ban leftlanenews.com—just changed the url of this one story. If other articles on that site are original, substantive content, you're still welcome to post them here.
- GFischer 13y ago
  Thanks for sharing your thought process and guidelines, we appreciate the transparency.
- sologoub 13y ago
  Thanks! Very clear now. As for leftlanenews.com, their original content is so heavily focused on car news that I doubt much of it will be good HN content.