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I am now an entreporn star

12 points by adib 16y ago

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pg 16y ago
There ought to be a word for this phenomenon where people follow a post that got them a lot of traffic from HN with another about how much traffic they got. Metabaiting?
- craigkerstiens 16y ago
  This would actually be interesting if it showed long term effects. The posts only a few days after seem to come up every other day now, versus actually showing the long term effects. Are many bloggers consistently growing their user base over many months? If so would love to hear about how those stats actually looked from an long past HN front page article.
- jp 16y ago
  I think it is because people think HN traffic is "oh shiny.." compared to other link sharing sites. And then you go too far and get banned or hated by HN members.
- Udo 16y ago
  Let's call it Meturbation. Especially since it's metabaiting about (alleged) entreporneurship and all.
  - ivankirigin 16y ago
    metabating what do you call this thread?
mashmac2 16y ago
What does the HN readership think about this article? I disagree with it. It appears the author is suggesting that HN is for hackers looking for a quick fix, not articles of value and meaning. And, based on the number of in-depth articles (Economist, Atlantic, etc...), I'd argue that the HN readership is much more interested in depth compared to most online communities.
- robryan 16y ago
  On another level though the community is quiet a busy one, so taking a quick break from work and keeping up on things with a few tidbits here and there is pretty common. At times while a long in depth article would be great it is just to much of a distraction at the time from getting something done.
- olefoo 16y ago
  To some extent depth, and deep thinking are somewhat against the grain of the medium; the internet supports the idea that you are always getting the latest and greatest news, or at least that what you're seeing has been filtered of the boring and spammy before it gets to you by the power of the aggregators. The essential feature of the internet is that it is a connection to many distant places at once. This comment will in theory be visible in the Ukraine 3 minutes after I post it. The constant flood of novelty and distraction that comes form the internet is part and parcel of what could be called the grain of the medium. What I find truly interesting is that as the internet becomes more pervasive it also becomes less urgent. And it's telling that as the internet is reaching ubiquity we are seeing a shift to tablets. Notice how an iPad or Kindle user is usually more relaxed, focused on a single task at a time, in a posture that can mostly be described as relaxed; the pose of a student or a scholar pondering what is available to them, rather than the infoshark pose of someone manically paging through comments to reach the good stuff, the now, the new. Calm computing is the new trend.
robryan 16y ago
Looks like the original post would have only taken people less than 20 seconds to read, so it's not all that unusual an 11 second average time on page. Most of the blogs on here, unless they pop up a bit or I'm really drawn to a post I only see in the context of that post and not what else they have.

12 points by adib 16y ago

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pg 16y ago

There ought to be a word for this phenomenon where people follow a post that got them a lot of traffic from HN with another about how much traffic they got. Metabaiting?

craigkerstiens 16y ago
This would actually be interesting if it showed long term effects. The posts only a few days after seem to come up every other day now, versus actually showing the long term effects. Are many bloggers consistently growing their user base over many months? If so would love to hear about how those stats actually looked from an long past HN front page article.
jp 16y ago
I think it is because people think HN traffic is "oh shiny.." compared to other link sharing sites. And then you go too far and get banned or hated by HN members.
Udo 16y ago
Let's call it Meturbation. Especially since it's metabaiting about (alleged) entreporneurship and all.
- ivankirigin 16y ago
  metabating what do you call this thread?

mashmac2 16y ago

What does the HN readership think about this article? I disagree with it. It appears the author is suggesting that HN is for hackers looking for a quick fix, not articles of value and meaning. And, based on the number of in-depth articles (Economist, Atlantic, etc...), I'd argue that the HN readership is much more interested in depth compared to most online communities.

robryan 16y ago
On another level though the community is quiet a busy one, so taking a quick break from work and keeping up on things with a few tidbits here and there is pretty common. At times while a long in depth article would be great it is just to much of a distraction at the time from getting something done.
olefoo 16y ago
To some extent depth, and deep thinking are somewhat against the grain of the medium; the internet supports the idea that you are always getting the latest and greatest news, or at least that what you're seeing has been filtered of the boring and spammy before it gets to you by the power of the aggregators. The essential feature of the internet is that it is a connection to many distant places at once. This comment will in theory be visible in the Ukraine 3 minutes after I post it. The constant flood of novelty and distraction that comes form the internet is part and parcel of what could be called the grain of the medium. What I find truly interesting is that as the internet becomes more pervasive it also becomes less urgent. And it's telling that as the internet is reaching ubiquity we are seeing a shift to tablets. Notice how an iPad or Kindle user is usually more relaxed, focused on a single task at a time, in a posture that can mostly be described as relaxed; the pose of a student or a scholar pondering what is available to them, rather than the infoshark pose of someone manically paging through comments to reach the good stuff, the now, the new. Calm computing is the new trend.

robryan 16y ago

Looks like the original post would have only taken people less than 20 seconds to read, so it's not all that unusual an 11 second average time on page. Most of the blogs on here, unless they pop up a bit or I'm really drawn to a post I only see in the context of that post and not what else they have.