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What is the deal with the recent "thedotpost.com" envelope for perfectly valid YouTube URLs? I want to flag this post just for that. https://www.youtube.com/wa

• fweespeech 11y ago
  jgrahamc is the speaker, it was at a conference run by the same company as thedotpost.com. I'm not really seeing the issue. Complaining about how someone chooses to link to their own content seems silly tbh.
  • mdaniel 11y ago
    My apologies, I just noticed a flood of these previously unrecognized domains which had a lot of "web chrome" around a central YouTube video. I shouldn't have included the language about flagging it, as that made my comment more negative than I intended it. I am slowly learning to pare down my HN comments to avoid that editorializing.
    • vacri 11y ago
      In this particular case, the website logo is the same logo on the speaker's podium and on the wall behind the speaker :)
    • fweespeech 11y ago
      No need to apologize, I was just explaining in case people did actually start flagging it because of your comment. I'm a bit of an asshole by nature so there isn't a need to take my diction seriously. Best of luck to you with your goal :)
• socket0 11y ago
  To determine whether something is really just "blog spam", I always look at whether the page adds anything that would be lost on YouTube. In this case there's the description, a link to slides, and information on the speaker. So this one gets a pass.