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well I can think of a number of things why that didn't work: 1-you have to consider how effective your mailing list is. Out of those 18,000 emails...normally,
by vaksel 16y ago
well I can think of a number of things why that didn't work:
1-you have to consider how effective your mailing list is. Out of those 18,000 emails...normally, how many would get opened in the past? how many would follow the links in the email? 18,000 emails mean nothing, if only 100 people actually read them.
2-you have to consider your audience. I would imagine most people on that list don't actually need that service. It's like pitching a book about C++ to your mailing list for soccer moms.
3-like someone mentioned, the service or the sales page may very well be crap. You can't know what your customers actually want. Sometimes you can go full retard in your copy, and you'll triple your sales.
So I wouldn't dismiss reputation just yet.
- Psyonic 16y agoYou never go full retard
- Psyonic 16y agoSo he borrows "full retard" and it's fine, but I finish the joke and get -13 for it? This site is really crazy sometimes.
- steveklabnik 16y agoActually, it's that the joke was a small part of his overall post, but it was all of yours. His comment was useful _in spite of_ the joke.
- Psyonic 16y agoRight, but what's wrong with a joke? It's not useful, sure, but it wasn't offensive or mean-spirited. Other than "this isn't reddit," what could possibly make it deserving of -20? Even if it wasn't funny, is that really the message we want to be sending? Tell a joke and get down-modded into oblivion?
- steveklabnik 16y agoIn general, anything that doesn't contribute to the conversation will end up downvoted. Check out this conversation, for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647322 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647322 If you look through my comment history, you'll find that I occasionally don't follow this, either... I'm just trying to explain why you might have been downvoted, I am not 20 different HNers, nor the HN morality police.
- Psyonic 16y agoI know you're not the HN police. I don't even care if you downvoted me. It's just karma. I'm just really surprised that a simple joke has become my most downvoted comment. I imagine in the nearly 4 years I've been here I've said some things that were far more deserving. Ultimately, I'll just have to adapt, because I'm not going to change HN. I still don't get it, and I've been here since the beginning, but I'm smart enough to see the writing on the wall. I'll save my jokes for somewhere else.