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A letter from Jason Calacanis, the owner of Hack a Day

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20 pointsblasdel13 comments

A lot of people have done a lot worse things than Jason. I don't know why people feel the need to piss down his throat on a daily basis.

I do wish he'd put his energies into something better than Mahalo though.

He's doing a damn fine job with This Week in Startups: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-startups/

Agreed. Mahalo is good, thisweekin is great.

Looks like the answers subdomain is running the Mahalo answers code that they're using to create all those spam q&a sites.

We are not creating spam sites.

sigh....

we are creating vertical Q&A sites like www.ipad-answers.com. These vertical sites are doing well and starting to build audience.

Please don't fall for the SEO rhetoric.

Have you ever considered that when a large number of people calls what you do "spam", that it might indeed be just that?

well, if those people are SEOs who are on jihad against me, no, I don't listen to them.

I mean, every comment i make is voted down instantly on HN. It doesn't matter what I say or do. I could stop the BP oil spill and it would get voted down!

so far none of the few comments here have mentioned it, so I will. It's by and large a difficult task to neatly label anybody into distinct and non-overlapping categories (this person is 'good', 'bad', 'whatever'), simply because there's so many criteria you can use to, well .. when forming an impression of a person. I don't know everything else that Jason does, but I have sort of read the stories / drama, and I'm not commenting on any of that.

The one thing I think Jason deserves credit for, however small, is for yanking HackADay at the very last minute from the sale because he knew it would get shut down by the to-be-new-owners if was sold.

He could just have sold it and not worry about the life and death of HaD, but he did not.

I mean, every comment i make is voted down instantly on HN. It doesn't matter what I say or do. I could stop the BP oil spill and it would get voted down!

Perhaps people would like you again if you cut out the painful hypocrisy for once.

I think you're a smart person. You're well aware of the name of your game. Do you think you can evade the google ban for longer if you maintain your constant, vocal denial?

Or what's the reason for your, frankly, absurd statements that predictably get you nothing but downvotes and critique?

"Vertical Q&A site" is just off the scale on the bullshit meter, and you know that.

Wait, is that the spammer Calacanis?

Did he found hackaday or buy it?

Either way, makes me want to avoid it...too bad too.

sigh It was part of Weblogs Inc. which he cofounded. When AOL bought the company, they didn't get Hackaday- it was spun off as a separate blog before Calacanis bought it back.

Founded it. With the recent Mahalo stories, it can be hard to remember all of the good Calacanis has done but he has a pretty positive history when it comes to Weblogs Inc.

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