If the internet would hire people to advertise for them, it would bring marketing to the next level. Take for example if BitBucket hired someone to go online, and compare the two: GitHub and BitBucket. Of course the comparison would have to disclose that thy work for BitBucket, but it would be a very thoughtful response.<p>We would get these detailed as fuck responses on why one project (BitBucket) is worth more to the developer than GitHub instead of these little jabs at why it is better. I want thoughtful responses.<p>If there was a duplicate response, the employee that responds to various threads online can link them to their answers.<p>This isn&#x27;t even directed at you @ntaylor. I think it&#x27;s an exploitable marketing strategy. A clear example of this is Katie from PornHub. &#x2F;u&#x2F;Katie_PornHub (or whatever the user name is) posts on reddit, which in tern gets more interest in PornHub. PornHub is basically using reddit for free advertising.<p>Basically. I want to know WHY something is better than something else, and that WHY is with as much detail as possible with a lot of thought put into it. Give me a pros and const list between the two. Anything but two good things about it.<p>- - -<p>Holy fuck, this would just add a human element to advertising. You hire humans to serve ads to people. Whenever &quot;GitHub&quot; is mentioned, and you have a competing better service, their only job is to advertise your service to anyone have problems with the other service.<p>In cases like these, it always seems to happen naturally. Humans are willingly advertising for free, when they could be paid for it.<p>The downfall of the internet:<p><pre><code>  &gt; We make up the ad network
  &gt; It carries us far;
  &gt; however---giants must fall.
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