i would guess that a full %50-%70 of HN content is content marketing of some sort (either for a startup or for someone's personal brand). so many prescriptions on HN but no ban on this kind of content. makes you think.
The content has to meet certain quality standard to survive here. Most content marketing dones't, but some does, sometimes. And when it does, you may as well leave it up - per https://xkcd.com/810/.
Oooh, oh, are you kidding me?! This is the meanest and most hilarious thing anyone has ever said to me on HN! Two words and I got accused of being a spam bot making a "not constructive" and/or "unhelpful" comment!
Destroyed!
I tip my hat to you good sir. I have been roasted, but well.
dang? has explicitly stated that content marketing is allowed on HN; it just has to satisfy everything else required for a post (intellectually interesting, etc.).
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i would guess that a full %50-%70 of HN content is content marketing of some sort (either for a startup or for someone's personal brand). so many prescriptions on HN but no ban on this kind of content. makes you think.
The content has to meet certain quality standard to survive here. Most content marketing dones't, but some does, sometimes. And when it does, you may as well leave it up - per https://xkcd.com/810/.
Better that companies are putting dollars to creating tutorials, education, helping people directly instead of more banner ads.
Wow, that's fantastic, best xkcd ever!
Nice try :).
Oooh, oh, are you kidding me?! This is the meanest and most hilarious thing anyone has ever said to me on HN! Two words and I got accused of being a spam bot making a "not constructive" and/or "unhelpful" comment!
Destroyed!
I tip my hat to you good sir. I have been roasted, but well.
dang? has explicitly stated that content marketing is allowed on HN; it just has to satisfy everything else required for a post (intellectually interesting, etc.).
HN occasionally has interesting submarine stories. But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a submarine is only a submarine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20728690
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Right, here are two things I wrote about that on days when there was time to write about that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186280
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20617732
From an HN point of view the question is whether it's interesting or not.