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Yeah I get it. Found something to remove toxicity from my feed. And sorry I can't give you an upvote because that would ruin the number. :) Edit: someone ruin

• max_ 6y ago
  He's is basicaly telling you to have a niche. Once you have that, you can now use a trickle down process that exposes you to the audience via local celebrities of the niche. That's how things "blow up".
  • iamben 6y ago
    Yeah, exactly. Make a pair of canvas basketball boots covered in pictures of unicorns and sell them to the 200 people that are desperately in love with unicorns and have always wanted a pair of canvas basketball boots covered in them. Much easier (/cheaper!) than making a bad copy of a pair of Nike Jordan and trying to sell them to everyone already buying Jordan's. In other words, start a small, high-engagement Instagram account that photoshops baseball caps and jerseys onto cats, then do something similar again and again, then start leveraging your audience into the more generic offerings after... You liked this, then try this as well.
• dhimes 6y ago
  I don't see numbers- one of us is the "control" ...
  • thrwaway69 6y ago
    The parent had 6969 total votes before.
    • throwawaynice 6y ago
      nice
  • rckoepke 6y ago
    Same. I don't see vote counts, there's no downvote buttons, and no "report" or "flag" link anywhere on HN for me.
    • dhimes 6y ago
      To flag, I think you can click the "X hours ago" - that's actually a link, and flagging will be an option if you look carefully. I know they were experimenting a long time ago (apparently still are) with making upvote counts invisible. It's been a long time. The idea of 7000 upvotes on a comment is an order of magnitude for what I've ever heard of.
    • zaat 6y ago
      These and other treats will arrive as you get higher karma levels.