As nice as it is to link to the actual interview, the blog post does so as well, and adds its own content to the mix. I don't see what's pasted or spammy about this.

"Blogspam" is slang used to refer to a specific rule on HN, rather than a literal description of content.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  Please submit the original source. If a blog post 
  reports on something they found on another site, submit 
  the latter.

So if a post "adds its own content to the mix" then it can't be blogspam, innit?

It's to mitigate people linking to the same story 10 times.

However, if the additional content is noteworthy, then you could link to it on HN, but make the title accordingly specifying that it is the opinion of the writer, and not the original source, that is what the reader should be considering.

Fair point.

I'd rather support maximum pc than kotaku to be honest.

You don't use an adblocker?

I think it is better to support the sites you like and avoid those that you do not, than to leach from all sites without discretion.

(I have no idea what moistgorilla's issue with kotaku may be.)

I support sites that I like (RockPaperShotgun, 4chan) by directly giving them money, so that I am the customer, rather than the product being sold.

That, and the number of high profile incidents where attackers sneak Flash 0day exploits into ad networks, are the reasons why I block ads.

I don't deliberately block ads, but I do block Flash and Javascript for that reason. (If you want me to see your ads, make them work without Javascript, thankyou very much.)

That would means ads would be blocking page load, with javascript loaded ads, you can have the ad load asynchronously to the page.