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Six Years of Hacker News Comments about Twilio

42 points by coloneltcb 10y ago

celticninja 10y ago
What is the point of this post?
- marvel_boy 10y ago
  revenge?
- thakobyan 10y ago
  to encourage you to follow your own gut
dang 10y ago
It's no secret that commenters on the internet produce a lot of lame, negative comments. If you filter for those, you're basically trolling yourself at a meta level. I bet if you collected the best and most insightful comments about Twilio over the same time period, you'd find they go further in the positive direction than these ones do in the negative.
- minimaxir 10y ago
  The collection of negative Twilio comments isn't self-trolling, it's "lol those haters were wrong."
kevin_morrill 10y ago
This is terrible. There should be a law against it.
- kevin_morrill 10y ago
  Also how long before it comes out that Peter Thiel is secretly running Twilio out of his basement.
beardicus 10y ago
> Keep doubting! And don't forget to crap on any new thing that gets launched. For every post like this, you get two complaining that HN is a bunch of cheerleaders for XYZ. I don't know if the positive/negative balance is quite right on HN, but I do know that it's not all "haters gonna hate"-worthy. Further, some of the highlighted comments are pretty factual and useful. For instance: Authy is/was a fairly sloppy app, and it managed to lose my data during one of its many upgrades.
profmonocle 10y ago
Seems like he just cherry-picked the negative comments. That'd be fine, but choosing not to mention this kind of hurts his argument. (Could have titled the article "Six Years of Twilio Doubters on Hacker News" or something more clever than I can come up with.) The comment he gives for "Twilio Launches UK SMS" is from the bottom of the page with one or more downvotes. Meanwhile, the first comment on that page says "Awesome work Twilio, been looking forward to being able to play around with SMS as much as I have calls without having to use a US number."
- kevinburke 10y ago
  that whooshing sound you hear is The Point, flying past your head
  - dang 10y ago
    That's not nice, especially after criticizing others for being negative.

42 points by coloneltcb 10y ago

celticninja 10y ago

What is the point of this post?

marvel_boy 10y ago
revenge?
thakobyan 10y ago
to encourage you to follow your own gut

dang 10y ago

It's no secret that commenters on the internet produce a lot of lame, negative comments. If you filter for those, you're basically trolling yourself at a meta level. I bet if you collected the best and most insightful comments about Twilio over the same time period, you'd find they go further in the positive direction than these ones do in the negative.

minimaxir 10y ago
The collection of negative Twilio comments isn't self-trolling, it's "lol those haters were wrong."

kevin_morrill 10y ago

This is terrible. There should be a law against it.

kevin_morrill 10y ago
Also how long before it comes out that Peter Thiel is secretly running Twilio out of his basement.

beardicus 10y ago

> Keep doubting! And don't forget to crap on any new thing that gets launched. For every post like this, you get two complaining that HN is a bunch of cheerleaders for XYZ. I don't know if the positive/negative balance is quite right on HN, but I do know that it's not all "haters gonna hate"-worthy. Further, some of the highlighted comments are pretty factual and useful. For instance: Authy is/was a fairly sloppy app, and it managed to lose my data during one of its many upgrades.

profmonocle 10y ago

Seems like he just cherry-picked the negative comments. That'd be fine, but choosing not to mention this kind of hurts his argument. (Could have titled the article "Six Years of Twilio Doubters on Hacker News" or something more clever than I can come up with.) The comment he gives for "Twilio Launches UK SMS" is from the bottom of the page with one or more downvotes. Meanwhile, the first comment on that page says "Awesome work Twilio, been looking forward to being able to play around with SMS as much as I have calls without having to use a US number."

kevinburke 10y ago
that whooshing sound you hear is The Point, flying past your head
- dang 10y ago
  That's not nice, especially after criticizing others for being negative.