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Comment by lawrenceyan | Hacker News Reader

Fair enough, I can see how even with a citation, aggregators might dilute the credit received to the original poster because most people prefer the more convenient option of just staying with the aggregator.

Though I would still argue that by definition, sites like Hacker News are also aggregators in the same way, so I think it's slightly disingenuous to pick on one and not the other.

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I think that there’s a bug difference between a site that’s clearly an aggregator (HN) and something with original content and thin wrappers around another site’s content.

I do have some thoughts in regards to your statement, but this discussion is probably better made on a different thread somewhere else.

>sites like Hacker News are also aggregators in the same way, so I think it's slightly disingenuous to pick on one and not the other.

IME, HN posts aren't ever a source of the content linked, only as a source of comments. Plus, HN doesn't run ads on its posts.

Lastly, evbite the-site-itself appears currently not to be...up.

Linking to hn thread instead of the original article wouldn't quite be blogspam (hn doesn't copy the content) but it would be bad form for the same reasons (assuming you weren't linking to the hn thread for added content, such as linking to someone's great comment).

Blogspam isn't a judgement that says you shouldn't read the article if you're on the blog (or read hn), it's a judgement that you shouldn't link to it on a news aggregator, or generally use it as a source.

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