What is the deal with the recent "thedotpost.com" envelope for perfectly valid Y...

fweespeech · on June 25, 2015

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.

mdaniel · on June 26, 2015

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.

vacri · on June 26, 2015

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

fweespeech · on June 26, 2015

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 :)

socket0 · on June 26, 2015

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.