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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It's blogspam, pure and simple.
I thought blogspam was not allowed on HN?
This is effectively just blogspam.
It is blogspam. The OG article on this subject would be much more interesting.
this is like paywalled blogspam.
This could qualify as blog spam. Flag accordingly.
Not sure why you are being downvoted; this is correct per the site guidelines. This is blogspam.
Blog spam. Why isn't this a direct link?
Why link to blogspam instead of the real thing?
Blogspam with barely any details.