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Could you explain what is arrogant about it? The all caps doesn't come across as arrogant or weird to me on the blogpost.
by praneshp 10y ago
Could you explain what is arrogant about it? The all caps doesn't come across as arrogant or weird to me on the blogpost.
- stickfigure 10y agoWhen I saw the story, it stood distinctly apart on the HN homepage as the only story title with ALL CAPS LOOK AT ME. It was definitely a HN culture faux-pas. Alone by itself this is not a serious indictment, but coming from a company with a reputation for arrogance it seemed to be in particularly poor taste. The title of the story on HN has since been corrected to normal case. I'm not an Uber hater, if anything I'm inclined to defend the company. But posting ALL CAPS to HN is either arrogance or carelessness or (most likely) some combination of both. I would not normally pay attention except this is a company which already has a reputation, so maybe it's actually part of the corporate culture? Or maybe I'm overthinking it.
- skylark 10y agoI think you're massively overthinking it. The poster probably just copy pasted the headline directly from the blog when submitting the link. "All caps" is sorta the Uber aesthetic and looks totally normal in the context of the blog post itself.