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Yes, it is trivial. You have a warped perspective of importance if you think giving the nod to a new mail app is some holy thing. I tell my friends about new a
by nobodyaccount 8y ago
Yes, it is trivial. You have a warped perspective of importance if you think giving the nod to a new mail app is some holy thing.
I tell my friends about new apps, startups, and projects all the time. None of them think I'm staking my reputation when I shitpost about some new thing in Slack.
- lisper 8y ago> Yes, it is trivial. Then why are you posting anonymously?
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoWe are different. If I recommend a piece of software to someone these days, it means it's truly exceptional and they should really check it out. Apart from that, the e-mail form doesn't let me control what I'm sending.
- mr_overalls 8y agoRecommending a product you haven't reviewed is a form of lying. Some of us value our integrity.
- eevilspock 8y agoIsn’t this true of all advertising, except in the rare cases where the publisher only accepts ads for products they endorsed? How can we ever expect a reliable, non-garbage-dominate internet when it is funded by perverse incentives?
- lgas 8y agoThe distinction is that if I see a billboard (or magazine ad, or TV commercial) advertising a product I don't think that I have a relationship with the billboard and they know me pretty well and have my best interests at heart... so I don't think that if this particular billboard that knows me so well is promoting a product to me then it must be a pretty good product for me (especially because this billboard doesn't usually go out of their way to recommend products to me). But if a friend of mine recommends a product to me, well, I do think all of those things.
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- nobodyaccount 8y agoLiterally, nobody said to do that. Good lord, are you aware of nuance? You can make people aware of something that looks promising, without lying.
- mr_overalls 8y ago> You have a warped perspective of importance if you think giving the nod to a new mail app is some holy thing. You're taking a needlessly confrontational stance here with insulting language, and people are responding to that.
- colde 8y agoI don't think the parent is claiming its a holy thing. But I certainly feel the same way. My reputation is worth more to me, than trying to get higher up in a queue to a product i haven't tried. I don't share things with people lightly, and there are clearly a bunch of us out there. Any certainly, nobody is advocating that our view of the world is the correct one, just that we hold that view.
- JonasJSchreiber 8y agoThis is an awesome debate and one of the reasons I love HN
- privacypoller 8y agoand yet to make this comment you do it from an account created just for this purpose... why? to protect your reputation?
- nobodyaccount 8y agoIt's almost as if context matters
- jamesrcole 8y agoBut you're not giving the nod to it -- you don't even know yet if it's any good or not -- you're only telling them about it because you've got something to gain yourself from doing so.
- eevilspock 8y agoThis is the essence of the crap filled internet. Everyone makes these local trade offs and before you know it we all lose. We are prisoners of the dilemma.
- nobodyaccount 8y agoYeah! Now you've got it! You're just telling people about something. It's not a big deal.
- jamesrcole 8y agoSpam is also "just telling people about something". Imagine what the world would be like if everyone had the same attitude towards other people's attention and time as you do. I'm sure this behaviour doesn't seem like a big deal to you because relatively few people are so inconsiderate.