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Re:Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box by jrajav on Sunday December 09, 2012 @03:04PM (#4895898)
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.
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Re:Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box by sbierwagen on Sunday December 09, 2012 @03:14PM (#4895939)
"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.
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Re:Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box by stdbrouw on Sunday December 09, 2012 @06:24PM (#4896648)
So if a post "adds its own content to the mix" then it can't be blogspam, innit?
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Re:Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box by darylteo on Sunday December 09, 2012 @07:44PM (#4896856)
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.

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Re:Valve Confirms They are Working on a Steam Box by stdbrouw on Monday December 10, 2012 @08:41AM (#4898904)
Fair point.
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