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why so many posts to hacker News about this today? Seems and feels like guerrilla marketing.

jshevek 7y ago
>why so many posts to hacker News about this today? Seems and feels like guerrilla marketing. Are you accusing the people who posted these links of being employees of Remarkable? If so, you could just look at their comment histories to see if it seems likely before posting a general accusation. I am fascinated by this product. It is far more interesting to me than much of what Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, or Amazon have done in a tablet form factor in many years. I'm not surprised that others may have a similar level of interest.
- newen 7y ago
  Same. I bought the Sony DPT-S1 many years ago. It's serviceable but I've been waiting to see when a decent replacement comes out.
- pettycashstash2 7y ago
  I am not and did not accuse anyone. I simply noticed many links to many resources about same product in a short period of time. You can make your own judgement call on that. Are press releases standard - of course. I would ague that guerrilla marketing is standard ops for many new products/services and it should not be perceived in a negative way. Its a tool, i was simply curious if this was the case. In addition i'm fascinated at guerrilla marketing operations and am curious if they in fact are, how are they are engaged, paid etc.....
dang 7y ago
To add to what jshevek said: Please don't insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. Internet users are overwhelmingly too quick to leap to such explanations from (at best) a handful of data points, and it leads them to smear each other's integrity in ways that are not good for community. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Much more explanation for anyone who wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... In this case, a new product was launched today, it's normal for companies to coordinate that with press, and it's normal for multiple submissions on a story to show up on HN. It's also normal for humans to overinterpret streaks as something other than the randomness they usually are; we all do it, but it's not good to do it in ways that insinuate dishonesty in fellow community members.
kryptiskt 7y ago
Why would it be surprising that several links are posted the day when something is announced?

>why so many posts to hacker News about this today? Seems and feels like guerrilla marketing. Are you accusing the people who posted these links of being employees of Remarkable? If so, you could just look at their comment histories to see if it seems likely before posting a general accusation. I am fascinated by this product. It is far more interesting to me than much of what Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, or Amazon have done in a tablet form factor in many years. I'm not surprised that others may have a similar level of interest.

newen 7y ago
Same. I bought the Sony DPT-S1 many years ago. It's serviceable but I've been waiting to see when a decent replacement comes out.
pettycashstash2 7y ago
I am not and did not accuse anyone. I simply noticed many links to many resources about same product in a short period of time. You can make your own judgement call on that. Are press releases standard - of course. I would ague that guerrilla marketing is standard ops for many new products/services and it should not be perceived in a negative way. Its a tool, i was simply curious if this was the case. In addition i'm fascinated at guerrilla marketing operations and am curious if they in fact are, how are they are engaged, paid etc.....

dang 7y ago

To add to what jshevek said: Please don't insinuate astroturfing or shillage without evidence. Internet users are overwhelmingly too quick to leap to such explanations from (at best) a handful of data points, and it leads them to smear each other's integrity in ways that are not good for community. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Much more explanation for anyone who wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... In this case, a new product was launched today, it's normal for companies to coordinate that with press, and it's normal for multiple submissions on a story to show up on HN. It's also normal for humans to overinterpret streaks as something other than the randomness they usually are; we all do it, but it's not good to do it in ways that insinuate dishonesty in fellow community members.

kryptiskt 7y ago

Why would it be surprising that several links are posted the day when something is announced?