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Example of on HN expecting everyone (newbies and all) to know who you are. This happens with DANG and SAMA comments as well. Back when PG used to comment also h
by gist 11y ago
Example of on HN expecting everyone (newbies and all) to know who you are. This happens with DANG and SAMA comments as well. Back when PG used to comment also happened. Look at their profiles, really no explanation of who they are here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sama https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sama
Why is it so hard to put info in your profile or to put a footnote in your comments for the newbies? Would you have your business act this way? Reply to a person's inquiry and not say who you are and what you do? Of course not.
- HemanHeartYou 11y agogiven the context of the reply, any person of average intelligence should be able to figure it out (or just google)
- SixSigma 11y agoWell I read the reply : "we offer service X" could be from anybody trying to say they offer the service, not obvious at all it is a representative of Namecheap
- mikeyouse 11y agoHe posted this down the thread which starts with: > Disclaimer: I'm CIO @ Namecheap https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479810
- prawn 11y agoStill not outrageous to think that people might be able to give rookies some context rather than check the full thread for other comments doing so.