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They probably sent him an email with the subject, "You've won a million dollars!" and it was ignored as spam.
by SomeCallMeTim 16y ago
They probably sent him an email with the subject, "You've won a million dollars!" and it was ignored as spam.
- lancebailey 16y agoThats Funny :)
- duairc 16y agoWhy is this at -4? You heartless bastards!
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoHacker News tends to want only comments that contribute to the conversation. Mere statement that you laughed does not count.
- duairc 16y agoIt's completely harmless and it seems like a nice way to acknowledgement that the comment was appreciated. How is that possibly a bad thing? -4 means that 5 people decided that that comment was offensive to them. The only thing offensive about it is the lack of an apostrophe. Like, the person is just being nice. That they're at -4 for acknowledging their appreciation for another user's joke (5 people disliked this?!), and I'm only at 0 for an obviously negative, off-topic message where I call everyone heartless bastards (only 1 person disliked this) is absurd.
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoNo, minus four means that five people decided that the comment did not contribute. To indicate that you appreciate a post on this site, you upvote the post.
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- vrode 16y agoMaybe I can adopt it as a spam scam idea. I can target individuals in academia and hump their wet dreams of greatness.
- abecedarius 16y agoVernor Vinge wrote a story kinda like that: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6805/full/407679a0.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6805/full/407679a...