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What is the deal with the recent "thedotpost.com" envelope for perfectly valid YouTube URLs? I want to flag this post just for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA-gNoxSLCE

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jgrahamc is the speaker, it was at a conference run by the same company as thedotpost.com.

I'm not really seeing the issue. Complaining about how someone chooses to link to their own content seems silly tbh.

My apologies, I just noticed a flood of these previously unrecognized domains which had a lot of "web chrome" around a central YouTube video. I shouldn't have included the language about flagging it, as that made my comment more negative than I intended it. I am slowly learning to pare down my HN comments to avoid that editorializing.

In this particular case, the website logo is the same logo on the speaker's podium and on the wall behind the speaker :)

No need to apologize, I was just explaining in case people did actually start flagging it because of your comment.

I'm a bit of an asshole by nature so there isn't a need to take my diction seriously.

Best of luck to you with your goal :)

To determine whether something is really just "blog spam", I always look at whether the page adds anything that would be lost on YouTube. In this case there's the description, a link to slides, and information on the speaker. So this one gets a pass.

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