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Content marketing is still everywhere - AeroFS are doing it right now, and the Bitbucket story's submitter looks like he works at Atlassian and registered just
by benologist 12y ago
Content marketing is still everywhere - AeroFS are doing it right now, and the Bitbucket story's submitter looks like he works at Atlassian and registered just to market here over and over again.
There will be many more submissions by companies today.
- Supraperplex 12y agoI don't see any problem with that. We shall downvote uninteresting submissions and upvote good ones. It is irreleveant why they were submitted.
- benologist 12y agoIt is important because the submission process is an important filter - someone from HN saw something and thought the rest would like it. When that is circumvented the front page becomes democratically assembled from content that is provided to us, not selected by us.
- Supraperplex 12y agoA good (content) marketer would produce content that he thinks his target audience would like. There is no difference as to why a submitter does submit: the variable we ar talking here is the ability to estimate what is liked by the HN community. This ability is not necessarily afflicted by the motivation behind producing and submitting content. The original PG essays are a content marketing program for Y-combinator, for instance, but nobody in the marketed to crowd resents them. Au contraire, PG is hailed as a her (tm) and there is zero wrong with any of that, IMHO.
- benologist 12y agoPG's articles are just content, they're popular here but they don't get here artificially. I'm talking about companies who are on HN just to ensure their content reaches us. Trying to please the audience doesn't make the content suitable, they're still applying a broken and biased decision process to judge that.
- ad_hominem 12y agoYou can't downvote submissions. Lurk more.