[rglullis]

> I would take their blog posts

Me too. I am not talking about the content they are posting.

I am talking about this abuse of something that is supposed to be "community-curated". I just don't think it sets a good precedent to have every company using HN as some kind of PR channel.

Yesterday there were (pretty valid!) complaints from the "CEOs of Github's Elite Partners" showing up on the GH Marketplace thread. The complaints were valid because the comments from the CEOs were not actually trying to be informative, they were just trying to create marketing hype.

HN is much better when it's the place to find things we wouldn't find anywhere else. If it becomes standard practice for companies to submit every blog post to HN, how would HN differ from Twitter or Facebook? The whole voting part helps, but if the community starts to accept this asymmetry between content producers and consumers, it will be as bland as every other place.

[tracker1]

I think it depends on the specific source, and content... This isn't like the typical advertorial tech blog posts that a lot of us see. Auth0 is the one that really sticks out to me on that regard, though far from the only one.

So long as the blogs are well written, informative, and have some technical depth; even if from a single-source they have value. I could see similar blogs from any number of technical resources. MS bloggers have similar quality and often show up here regularly. FB as well. It's a matter of quality, and the voting model tends to bear that out pretty well.

[rglullis]

I don't know... You might be right that the voting part can take care of this. What I fear though is that the community will get used to this idea that there is no point in submitting anything that is outside of the mainstream, because the mainstream is already using HN, and any fringe topic will be drowned by the other voters.