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A comment on The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by lukeholder on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:31AM (#4290809)
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.

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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by Argorak on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:04AM (#4290976)
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.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by wmeredith on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:42AM (#4290866)
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.

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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by netnichols on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:47AM (#4290881)
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.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by wmeredith on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:00AM (#4290946)
Huh, I can't find The Deck ad on his site.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by elithrar on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:05AM (#4290978)
> 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.

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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by davezatch on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:01AM (#4290954)
The ads run on RSS only, I think.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by hisyam on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:58AM (#4291513)
Nope, I can see it from my browser. You might have to pause adblock to see it.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by boristhespider on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @11:59AM (#4291517)
Ad-supported, but not pay-per-pageview advertising, and not as a full-time job.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by epaga on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:44AM (#4291161)
Right...HN spam, even though he doesn't even have an HN account? http://www.twitter.com/marcoarment/status/228137545396019200
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by pgrote on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:37AM (#4290835)
How is it spam? A relevant developer writing something humorous and pretty insightful.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by dfc on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:32AM (#4291096)
I agree it was funny but insightful?
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by fredley on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:37AM (#4290837)
If it really bothers you that much filter it out. I enjoyed the article, I'm glad HN directed me to it.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by lukeholder on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:44AM (#4290872)
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.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by masklinn on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:55AM (#4290914)
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.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by nicholassmith on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:39AM (#4291133)
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.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by stonemetal on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:15PM (#4291586)
Not HN in particular, but all the viral news aggregators.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by mcguire on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @01:22PM (#4291962)
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.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by michaelkscott on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @07:33PM (#4293605)
A lot of reddit-style comments on this post, too.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by aprendo on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @09:39AM (#4290848)
Not everything is about HN. It seems to me that he is just having fun.
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Re:The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10... by mcguire on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @01:24PM (#4291974)
"Not everything is about HN."

You're not from around here, are you?

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