4 ms·
Does anyone else find it a bit weird that a post on ScyllaDB's blog announcing their fundraising starts with: "ScyllaDB announced today that it?" It seems weird
by jdoliner 10y ago
Does anyone else find it a bit weird that a post on ScyllaDB's blog announcing their fundraising starts with: "ScyllaDB announced today that it?" It seems weirdly self referential to me. They're definitely not the only ones to do this though.
Anyways, congrats on the funding guys, certainly not trying to cast shade.
- gshulegaard 10y agoI have noticed this trend as well. If I had to guess it's a SEO thing.
- hendzen 10y agoThe founding team is Israeli I believe, and their team is distributed across the world, so this may not have been written by a native English speaker.
- dvirsky 10y agoIt was probably written by their PR firm.
- gondo 10y agoi assume that it is a public release meant to be easily copied as is by anyone (preferably as many as possible) without a hassle of rewriting it
- tekacs 10y agoThis is the standard format for a press release (note the URL of the article - scylladb.com/press-release/...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_release
- jdoliner 10y agoI guess that makes some sense. It's still pretty weird to me though, the big difference with a press release is that the press is writing about an announcement that the company made. So it makes sense to describe the company in third person. If the company is writing for themselves they should just announce that they want to announce rather than announce their announcement.
- manigandham 10y agoA press release is written by the company, then released for the press to further distribute and write about if necessary.
- rodionos 10y agoIlleism is a device often used in PR/IR to inject a dose of impartiality in an otherwise biased content.