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You make it sound like he's murdering people to get ahead not that he is targeting a social network with content that is generally relevant and popular. The an
by sanswork 10y ago
You make it sound like he's murdering people to get ahead not that he is targeting a social network with content that is generally relevant and popular. The anything in this case is focused promotion.
- throwaway88744 10y ago> You make it sound like he's murdering people You are putting words into my mouth. He clearly wrote: > I've made a ton of submissions in the past 8 months and experimented with various combinations of stories/titles that the HN audience might like, without always being successful. (Probably one out of every 4-5 submissions turned into an angry mob haha) 20%-25% of his submissions made readers angry. Nevertheless he kept going and tried, by his own admission, to micro-optimise his submissions to get visibility. Maybe my sense of ethics is different than yours, but please don't put words in my mouth.
- holtalanm 10y agoso by your logic he should not do whatever he can to create the most effective submission possible? That seems counter-intuitive since really all HN cares about in the end is quality content.
- minimaxir 10y ago> so by your logic he should not do whatever he can to create the most effective submission possible? Ideally without breaking the HN rules.
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- sanswork 10y agoGiven the number of posts on HN these days that seem to spur a mob of angry people I'm not even sure 20-25% is a bad figure. You said he's willing to do anything when what you meant was he is willing to work on optimising his work to better appeal to a specific target community. How does that negatively impact there community exactly? My sense of ethics precludes me from creating a temp account to mask my own identity while attacking someone else online so I guess you're right that our ethics differ.