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To add context to your downvotes, it is clear that the author you cite used "market share" in an unusual way (possibly due to a language barrier), since there a
by HanayamaTriplet 7y ago
To add context to your downvotes, it is clear that the author you cite used "market share" in an unusual way (possibly due to a language barrier), since there are certainly more than ~503,000 bicycles in the whole country of Belgium.
- retrovm 7y agoSure, if you don't know what the term "market share" means then your comment makes perfect sense.
- derekp7 7y agoWhat would help your case (with regards to downvotes, and for your words to have greater impact) is to convey additional information instead of just repeating the same thing. For example, you could state that "Market share reflects sales of an item over a fiscal period -- which is different from installed base, which reflects the percentage of units that are in current usage". You can even include a pointer to a reference, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installed_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installed_Base. This way, even if you are technically correct, you can better convey knowledge when it appears that communication isn't occurring.
- retrovm 7y agoYeah but it's 2020 and I decided that just because people are displaying their own ignorance on the Internet doesn't impute upon me the duty to adjust their attitudes. If two fuckwits on HN want to hang around and tell me that I am using the term "market share" in a wrong or unusual way, when they themselves are the ones who obviously don't know what it means, then let them do it. Eventually the accumulated mass of stupidity recorded on this site will sink it.
- dang 7y agoPlease stop.