The Atlantic is in the content business, and in case you hadn't heard, that space is having its lunch eaten. It's part of the job to produce content and figure out how to have it read. That involves playing around with things.
I don't really find it reprehensible that people write and then promote their own content, whether that's music, movies or the written word. What else should be done? Establish centralized "distribution" centres? Wait a minute...
Promoting your articles on Twitter, Facebook, Google News and other channels expressly designed for that kind of purpose is fine.
Submitting your own articles once to a place like HN or reddit is pretty shady in the first place; since that's not the intent of these sites. The intent of these sites is sharing stuff you found, not stuff you created.
Submitting your own article twice is just a dick move.
>"Submitting your own articles once to a place like HN or reddit is pretty shady in the first place"
I just disagree. These sites operate pretty well as martkets. If your stuff sucks, I likely won't stumble on it.
>"since that's not the intent of these sites"
Ironic, since we have a "Show HN" topic here, the sole purpose of which is to do what you're saying shouldn't be done.
>"The intent of these sites is sharing stuff you found, not stuff you created."
I want to read good content; I don't care who submits it. I'd rather risk people submitting their own crap sometimes than never getting a chance to read something good that nobody "found".
Spamming is one thing, and obnoxious. But I find it a tad hypocritical to accept A/B testing colours on a button to squeeze another buck from someone, but reject someone A/B testing content to find out what combination of words in the title creates the most page views. It's the same business.
> Spamming is one thing, and obnoxious. But I find it a tad hypocritical to accept A/B testing colours on a button to squeeze another buck from someone, but reject someone A/B testing content to find out what combination of words in the title creates the most page views. It's the same business.
Oh come on. It's clearly not the changing of the URL in and of itself that I was objecting to. It's the doing it for the express purpose of submitting it twice to a site which has a filter set up in order to prevent that behavior.
I can't believe you didn't understand that from the get go, so I can only conclude that you are being deliberately obtuse which is annoying.
The Atlantic is in the content business, and in case you hadn't heard, that space is having its lunch eaten. It's part of the job to produce content and figure out how to have it read. That involves playing around with things.
I don't really find it reprehensible that people write and then promote their own content, whether that's music, movies or the written word. What else should be done? Establish centralized "distribution" centres? Wait a minute...