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sure. And good for them. The curator risks his own reputation by promoting sponsors with poor content, products, or services that are not relevant to the audience.

I don't mind advertising/marketing so long as it is relevant and timely.

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That's assuming the payments were to include something in the list. Influence can also work the other way: take something off of a list.

yeah so what. that is the privilege of having power, you can exchange it for other forms of power.

And again, credibility is at stake. If I curate a list of awesome cloud providers, and IBM pays me to exclude AWS, then I look like an idiot.

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