Timeline for Is it OK to just ask a question so you can post your own answer?
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| Jul 25, 2014 at 19:40 | comment | added | Jeromy French | @RobM: You're doing a great job of making my case: "content is king". If the salesperson has bad intentions, but provides good content, we're good. If the programmer has great intentions, but provides bad content...not so good. The motive is inconsequential. I'll put it another way: this is a results-based world. | |
| Jul 25, 2014 at 15:26 | comment | added | Rob Moir | @JeromyFrench well no, motive is important. Testimony from a dis-interested 3rd party is more valuable than sales-spiel from people selling products of unknown value. If we allowed someone to shill for bad file recovery products, for example, this would be of very dubious benefit to someone who was searching for information on good file recovery products because, oddly enough, the spammers somehow neglect to mention that their product is crap. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 20:50 | comment | added | Jeromy French | Even if it is schilling or rewhoring, it still benefits others who are searching for the information. Don't worry about the motive, content is king. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 9:43 | history | answered | Sobrique | CC BY-SA 3.0 |