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Comment by eropple | Hacker News Reader

It really is pretty much spam. It's pageview-bait at its finest. (And that's one of the main reasons I've filtered Ars's non-forum stuff, I've been a subscriber there for years but I'm not giving them pageviews for bad articles anymore.)

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Ars writers have been very honest about their use of pagination. Sometimes, I guess it is to get more hits, often its just a way of breaking up the story and to reduce page load time. If you are a subscriber, don't you get access to PDF or something like that?

I find Ars to be one of the better web publications out there. Until theverge came along, I would say they were bar none the best.

often its just a way of breaking up the story and to reduce page load time

It's 2013. Articles are text. This is silly.

Articles are text with huge images. Believe it or not, a page still loads slowly for those of us in 2nd world countries behind great firewalls. Also, I think pagerank still takes page load times into account, so putting everything into one giant long page would actually hurt their google rankings.

I say SO on Ars is not blogspam because unlike, say, most everything on Lifehacker, the content on Ars is not a thin veneer of bullshit/fluff designed to position an ad between the user and actual content.

How is it different from hackernews? They are using content from another website to create traffic and content on their own, pretty much the same thing hacker news is doing.

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