Comment by brazukadev

1 day ago

> Imagine complaining about someone generating valuable content for free and not packaging it to your personal tastes.

We complain about spammers all the time, what's wrong with that?

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dghlsakjg  12 hours ago

Simon isn’t a spammer.

He’s a talented developer who is selling nothing and wrote a post on his personal blog about a newly released LLM and mentioned that he used his own tooling to call the API.

He isn’t selling anything in this post (go ahead and show me where in the post I can buy something. A clearly delineated “sponsored by” sentence exists outside of the post, but does not in any way fit the definition of spam). Look into his reputation and blog history, it’s just him talking about what he is passionate about.

I’m only defending Simon because truly independent, non commercial work like his blog is incredibly rare and should be encouraged and not shit on by drive by commenters who can’t be bothered to distinguish between spam and actual content.

If you want to complain about spammers, find some spam first.

  • brazukadev  8 hours ago

    > Simon isn’t a spammer.

    Yes, he is. Every time he posts his own link, he is spamming. Every time he posts a one-liner on an AI topic to get upvoted, he is also spamming.

    • dghlsakjg  3 hours ago

      Someone posting content frequently isn’t a spammer if the content is valued. The fact that users here typically vote his posts right to the top and the discussions that ensue show that his posts are quite popular and valued.

      You not liking the content does not make it spam. Simon being prolific with making new content does not make it spam. Someone sharing their work in a place that it is popular does not make it spam. Self promotion is not necessarily spam.

      If you think that popular blog posts about technical subjects are spam, you should get off of HN since that is a huge part of the value of this site.

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