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Comment by dward | Hacker News Reader

How does content like this make it to the front page? This is the index page of a marketing blog. This is spam from rackspace.

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It's not a marketing blog actually; it's a developer blog by my team and I who work heavily and provide technical details on how we're doing interesting things with docker and swarm.

Literally nothing is written by "marketing" - just developers. And it's definitely not spam, if you look at https://getcarina.com/blog/push-button-lets-encrypt/ for example it's a complete tutorial on a simple nginix and docker let's encrypt post.

If it ever a marketing blog, I'll happily give myself a wedgie.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but it's a marketing blog run by developers. Marketing isn't some specific department certified as containing Marketers by the federal government. It's an activity with a goal to expand the market reach for a product, service, brand, or any other entity.

This is marketing content... And there's nothing wrong with that! We all market ourselves every day of the year. We may not admit to it or realize it, but it's inescapable.

So everything on HN by that logic is "marketing spam"

It would have been better for you to have submitted that or another interesting post, instead of submitting this list of posts.

I did that; but they got buried in the $rand stuff - not sure how this got traction but I'm totes happy.

It's a little late to point that out considering most of the technical blog articles you see on HN are of this sort.

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