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> 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 a
by throwaway88744 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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.