HN Blogspam Complaints

Users repeatedly label a Hacker News submission as blogspam, criticizing it as low-quality content copied from original sources and urging flags or direct links to better articles.

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Sample Comments

psychometry Sep 19, 2018 View on HN

It's blogspam, pure and simple.

mtgx Mar 18, 2013 View on HN

I thought blogspam was not allowed on HN?

lilyball Sep 30, 2019 View on HN

This is effectively just blogspam.

quickthrower2 Sep 7, 2022 View on HN

It is blogspam. The OG article on this subject would be much more interesting.

arbitrage Mar 11, 2021 View on HN

this is like paywalled blogspam.

hayksaakian Jan 11, 2013 View on HN

This could qualify as blog spam. Flag accordingly.

joshu Jul 9, 2013 View on HN

Not sure why you are being downvoted; this is correct per the site guidelines. This is blogspam.

joshu May 18, 2011 View on HN

Blog spam. Why isn't this a direct link?

smegel Sep 25, 2015 View on HN

Why link to blogspam instead of the real thing?

knolax Sep 25, 2019 View on HN

Blogspam with barely any details.