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Sorry if I misunderstand, but are you suggesting that these forces are not active on HN?
by jules-jules 8y ago
Sorry if I misunderstand, but are you suggesting that these forces are not active on HN?
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThey're more effective on a non-technical user-base where a larger fraction of users are unaware or less aware of those techniques.
- i_cant_speel 8y agoHN is also a fraction of the size of Reddit, so there is less value in attempting to do so.
- mbesto 8y agoAnd it has zero incentive to use its data other than to sell joining YC to entrepreneurs.
- vvillena 8y agoPsychological techniques tend to work no matter whether we are aware of them or not. Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow" explains why this happens, with lots of examples. It's a great read.
- newsbinator 8y agoI'd argue that's hard to measure. Can you convince a subset of doctors to go anti-vaxx as easily as you can a randomly sampled subset of laymen? I suspect much of the readership of HN isn't only aware of dark patterns, but actively primed to recoil from them.