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Comment by MoOmer | Hacker News Reader

I'm torn between supporting open source businesses, and calling this and almost all of your previous submissions spam.

Definitely not spam. I always hear people ask who is using RethinkDB in production, so just thought I'd help answer that here. I get where you're coming from, though :)

I greatly appreciate this post. I would love to hear about other people who are using RethinkDB. It is an interesting and unique tool, and fits certain use cases very well.

Rethinkdb was seeded by ycombinator and Andreessen Horowitz.

There is no way these posts would ever get removed even if most people did feel it was "spam".

Dang is incorruptible (which is why YC put him in charge of HN). He couldn't care less if someone was funded by YC, A16Z, or POTUS. If enough people flag something as spam (or he felt something is spam), the post would removed faster than we could blink.

Isn't he being paid by YC though? And there are frequently special hiring threads for YC companies.

Anyway there's a very thin line between spam and not spam, and is generally based on whatever people want to see at the time.

Totally agree. Which is why I'm telling you this isn't spam :) I wanted to post something to answer a lot of people's questions, plus it's a fun project to work on. If people want to watch it, that makes me happy. If they don't, then don't click, ya know?

It totally is spam. It's three short commercials. Hell, it's spam for multiple companies at once, it's like, quadruple-spam.

I've definitely had posts removed >_< c'est la vie.

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