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>While the event was happening I gave short updates by editing a comment here. It is disingenuous to only state you edited "a comment" there. You posted 10 com
by txcwpalpha 7y ago
>While the event was happening I gave short updates by editing a comment here.
It is disingenuous to only state you edited "a comment" there. You posted 10 comments in that thread, with at least another 10 edits. Of the top 5 comments, three of them are yours. On HN, each time you make a comment and people upvote your comment, it contributes to ranking the post higher on HN's front page. I fully understand that you were probably just trying to be communicative, but unintentionally or not, you did "fan the flames" by drawing additional attention to the issue.
- jgrahamc 7y agoSo, you'd propose I sit back and leave a story with incomplete information on HN's front page and say nothing? True that I posted other comments but they are short and don't say much. The real action was the main top comment.
- txcwpalpha 7y agoAbsolutely not! I appreciate your communication during the incident, and I definitely don't mean to discourage any participation in threads or reduce communication. I'm just pointing out that it did, if unintentionally, draw more attention to the issue. What I don't appreciate is your company's unprofessional response re: Verizon after the issue ended, but that's been discussed elsewhere.