It's a paid content that is useful to some here (hence the upvotes). Do you mean...

jerome_etienne · on Feb 22, 2010

yep, and viagra is usefull to some people with emails... your argument is not convincing. This is cheap dialectic.

oh and additionnaly viagra is usefull to some people reading HN... do you mean it is ok to advertuze viagra in HN ? (i can do cheap dialectic too :)

more seriously, this 'news' is clearly a spam and lets please avoid spam on HN.

davidw · on Feb 22, 2010

If you stop and think about it for a minute, Rails is fairly topical for this site, whereas e.d. is not.

I think there is nothing wrong with trying to sell something that you've worked hard on; isn't that what most of us are doing here?

That said, I didn't vote this up and don't think I would buy this book.

jerome_etienne · on Feb 22, 2010

well i dunno for you but i see very few 'news' which are direct links on the products sold by the posters. So no, i dont think this is what most of us are doing here.

i wont talk on this thread again. no hard feeling here, just trying to avoid more spamming in the future. have fun

thibaut_barrere · on Feb 22, 2010

> your argument is not convincing. This is cheap dialectic.

There was no argument or dialectic: I was just giving my opinion and asking a question (ie not trying to convince you), because I was curious to know why you had this other opinion.