This blog makes the HN front page time after time after time, even when it has no content and is marketing a non-free e-zine. With that level of web traffic it is no wonder the author is trying to sell text.
To clarify: I only mean this particular submission. Other submissions have contained content. With Javascript disabled, I could see any substantive content in this one, just a message about additional pages that have been added to a for sale "e-zine". Maybe I missed something. It seems like pages from some blogs end up on the HN front page again and again and again. The one hosted at utoronto.ca is another recent example. It makes me think the algorithm or voters are just selecting based on past reputation, not the actual content, as this "buy my e-zine" advertisement demonstrates. There is so much more variety of material that gets submitted to HN that never, ever reaches the front, not even for a moment. (We will never know what would happen if it did.) As such, HN contains a remarkably large amount of discussion-worthy material that never gets discussed. Meanwhile one can be sure we will see the next installment of some familiar blog, danfuu.com or whatever, on the front page, as well as constantly resubmitted submissions, even recycled ones that have already been discussed several times.
