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Unless you are claiming the "primary demographic" are a bunch of monomaniacal fruitcakes, everyone here is part of your "secondary demographic".
by billswift 17y ago
Unless you are claiming the "primary demographic" are a bunch of monomaniacal fruitcakes, everyone here is part of your "secondary demographic".
- derefr 17y agoI was trying to be general; sorry if it didn't make sense without examples: A "demographic"—think TV viewers—isn't composed of what people like in general, but only why they're interacting with your community in particular. The original primary demographic of HN was "Hackers who are here to talk about Startups." That demographic is very small, so it was replaced by its own secondary demographic, "Hackers who are here to talk about Whatever Hackers Like Talking About." Now, the secondary demographic is "non-hackers who like talking about some of the same stuff hackers talk about," and the tertiary demographic is "non-hackers who only care about the stuff that the other non-hackers talk about, and don't care about anything that hackers care about."