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seems to be a lot of new aliases making their debut in this thread
by Tycho 16y ago
seems to be a lot of new aliases making their debut in this thread
- acangiano 16y agocarlhancock and beaufrusetta are very likely to be sockpuppets: - Accounts created less than an hour ago - Only 1 comment, very positive about the company - Both use "win" or variations of it EDIT: They aren't sockpuppets, but rather supportive friends of the startup's founder.
- strebel 16y agoor could they be http://twitter.com/carlhancock http://twitter.com/carlhancock and http://twitter.com/beaufrusetta http://twitter.com/beaufrusetta whom are supportive friends?
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- aspir 16y agoIf it helps, I can assure you that I found this link/company organically. I was doing market research on the wordpress-based business niche for a client and found these guys.
- jambo 16y agoI think "winning" was a call out to the Charlie Sheen meme.
- getsat 16y ago#winning, after some research, appears to be related to Charlie Sheen's newfound popularity on Twitter: http://twitter.com/charliesheen http://twitter.com/charliesheen
- carlhancock 16y agoSock puppet? Hardly. I just never bothered posting here before. This is my real name and i'm one of the co-founders of a successful 100% bootstrapped and profitable company that produces commercial plugins for WordPress. I posted to show support for Page.ly because I know Josh and Co. at Page.ly bust their ass on a daily basis running their business. The #winning was a lame reference to Charlie Sheen.
- personalcompute 16y agoThey even had the audacity to write "Someone had submit this page to hackernews, Thanks! Check it out"[sic] on the page. Wow, come on guys.
- strebel 16y agoCome on now. I am the founder of page.ly (if that was not clear) and what could be wrong with a little celebratory call out back to this community, which does not seem to be all that welcoming all of sudden. A 1000 new visits over an hour or so from hackernews was kind of novel for us.