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Comment by lukeholder | Hacker News Reader

Marco has perfected the followup blog entry HN spam. Even if it is hilarious and witty.

He jumps on a hot topic and gets the page views.

I would hate running a blog where every time I hit the "publish" button I have to think "someone might put this on Hacker News and some Hacker News guy will complain about me spamming". I don't think that this is "news"-worthy, but its the hacker news community that posted it here and upvoted it.

His site isn't ad supported–I don't think he's trolling for pageviews. Also, if you listen to his podcast, he's stated that he doesn't much care for hitting the front page of HN because we're such cynical dicks (paraphrased).

UPDATE: His site is ad-supported. It was just blending in a little too well.

He's on The Deck network, so it is ad supported. That's not to say I think he's trolling... I think he's just having fun.

Huh, I can't find The Deck ad on his site.

The ads run on RSS only, I think.

Nope, I can see it from my browser. You might have to pause adblock to see it.

> Huh, I can't find The Deck ad on his site.

It's in the top banner, to the right of his header/nav. It's just that one of the current ads is a shade of brown almost identical to his own.

Ad-supported, but not pay-per-pageview advertising, and not as a full-time job.

Right...HN spam, even though he doesn't even have an HN account? http://www.twitter.com/marcoarment/status/228137545396019200

How is it spam? A relevant developer writing something humorous and pretty insightful.

I agree it was funny but insightful?

If it really bothers you that much filter it out. I enjoyed the article, I'm glad HN directed me to it.

I loved the article. Spam was probably a strong word. He has perfected the art of getting his blog to the top of HN by writing a meta article.

I'm pretty sure he does not care about HN, he's just horsing around with his blog and having a bit of fun with his reviewer reputation.

He's said on podcasts he's not a fan of Hacker News comments, so I'm going to say he's not overly fussed on hitting the top of HN in general.

Not HN in particular, but all the viral news aggregators.

lukeholder has perfected the HN spam complaint spam. Someone makes a blog entry that gets posted to HN and he calls it spam and gets...something. No idea what. Sorry.