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I wish HN would link to any other author's posts on hackaday other than Benchoff. His articles are very clickbaity for a site that rarely does clickbait, and he

by joemi 9y ago

I wish HN would link to any other author's posts on hackaday other than Benchoff. His articles are very clickbaity for a site that rarely does clickbait, and he's frequently been openly hostile to commenters and to readers in general. I sincerely believe HAD would be a better site without him, and I wish his posts weren't also popping up on HN.

grzm 9y ago
> "I wish HN would link to any other author's posts" You're HN as much as any other member. If you find articles that you find interesting, submit them! Help make HN the place you want it to be.
- DanBC 9y ago
  There's no hope of out-competing rbanffy's rate of submission.
wanderingjew 9y ago
Hey Joemi, Benchoff here. Glad to see my work is at least noticed. To respond to your calls of clickbait, yes, I do have a habit of writing articles that are picked up on Hacker News. I see that you have submitted a total of zero items to HN, how about submitting a few other articles from Hackaday (sparing myself, of course) to HN? I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
- joemi 9y ago
  I'm not calling your HAD articles clickbaity because they get picked up by HN... I meant they had titles that were actual clickbait, like you were goading people into clicking out of anger because you'd say something inflammatory or because you phrased something in a certain way so that it sounded wrong. (And then you'd continue the goading in the articles.) That said, I just glanced through your more recent HAD articles to offer up some examples and they don't seem anything like that anymore, so I'll give your stuff another shot. I guess your style's changed since a little less than a year ago when I noticed and decided to filter out all your articles from the RSS feed (in particular because you were telling people who offered corrections to your articles that they're "shitting up the comments"). As to my zero submissions... I'm just not a submitter. shrug

by joemi 9y ago

grzm 9y ago

> "I wish HN would link to any other author's posts" You're HN as much as any other member. If you find articles that you find interesting, submit them! Help make HN the place you want it to be.

DanBC 9y ago
There's no hope of out-competing rbanffy's rate of submission.

wanderingjew 9y ago

Hey Joemi, Benchoff here. Glad to see my work is at least noticed. To respond to your calls of clickbait, yes, I do have a habit of writing articles that are picked up on Hacker News. I see that you have submitted a total of zero items to HN, how about submitting a few other articles from Hackaday (sparing myself, of course) to HN? I'm sure they'd appreciate it.

joemi 9y ago
I'm not calling your HAD articles clickbaity because they get picked up by HN... I meant they had titles that were actual clickbait, like you were goading people into clicking out of anger because you'd say something inflammatory or because you phrased something in a certain way so that it sounded wrong. (And then you'd continue the goading in the articles.) That said, I just glanced through your more recent HAD articles to offer up some examples and they don't seem anything like that anymore, so I'll give your stuff another shot. I guess your style's changed since a little less than a year ago when I noticed and decided to filter out all your articles from the RSS feed (in particular because you were telling people who offered corrections to your articles that they're "shitting up the comments"). As to my zero submissions... I'm just not a submitter. shrug