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The most interesting stuff is toward the bottom. I found this fascinating and unintuitive: > Downranking of Tutorials > HN submissions which are tutorials are
by ehershey 5y ago
The most interesting stuff is toward the bottom. I found this fascinating and unintuitive:
> Downranking of Tutorials
> HN submissions which are tutorials are downranked by moderators, as they gratify intellectual curiosity less.
- culturestate 5y agoNot that long ago, you could very quickly build a decent SEO campaign around "X vs. Y" tutorials and HN - write 5,000 words on e.g. Angular vs. Ember, get some friends to upvote it, and if you made the front page you'd be on the first Google SERP for Angular and Ember the next day. I personally know a couple of early-ish YC companies who took advantage of that to boost their content marketing ops, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they were part of the reason this policy exists.
- dang 5y agoThey weren't; I don't know anything about that. We just figured out one day that tutorials aren't intellectually interesting, in one of those obvious-once-you-see-it moments.