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I didn't see anything blatant. What was blatant about it?

by memexy 6y ago

ninjin 6y ago
Imagine the following exchange: A: “Recently I have been thinking about personal responsibility.” B: “Why so?” A: “I believe there is a strong correlation between a sense of personal responsibility and success later in life.” C: “That is interesting, I think I read a study about this once. Here is a link!” <the discussion goes on for some time> B: “Myself, I learned about personal responsibility – in particular financial – when I as a child ran my own little business. What I did was to deliver apples and later fruit for a small fee to the neighbourhood on my bike when I was about twelve. It did not make me rich of course, just enough to buy a video game in the end. But I do think it gave me solid experience in life. Later on in high school I started designing local webpages.” D: “Hi! I am D, I am head of research at Foobar Corp and we have a new apple breed: http://foo.bar/baz http://foo.bar/baz It is the best apple on the market: crisp, juicy, and perfect for pies! Let me know if we can help!” A, B, and C: “Eh?!” Now, you are perfectly in your right to disagree. But I think D is being a dick here and inserting themselves blatantly solely to attract attention to their product and adding nothing to the discussion or the community as a whole – possible because D has signed up for some god awful “business intelligence” tool that just scans various websites for mentions of “apples” so that they can insert a generic, re-usable message. Regardless, I will not monitor this conversation further as I feel we are at this point deviating far far from the topic of this “dead” thread. If you still feel the need to discuss this matter, feel free to dig up my e-mail on my personal website. Trust me, I am fairly easy to locate with my username and a keyword or two from my profile – or just look at the about page using the link to the tool I mentioned earlier in this conversation.

I didn't see anything blatant. What was blatant about it?

by memexy 6y ago

I didn't see anything blatant. What was blatant about it?

Imagine the following exchange: A: “Recently I have been thinking about personal responsibility.” B: “Why so?” A: “I believe there is a strong correlation between a sense of personal responsibility and success later in life.” C: “That is interesting, I think I read a study about this once. Here is a link!” <the discussion goes on for some time> B: “Myself, I learned about personal responsibility – in particular financial – when I as a child ran my own little business. What I did was to deliver apples and later fruit for a small fee to the neighbourhood on my bike when I was about twelve. It did not make me rich of course, just enough to buy a video game in the end. But I do think it gave me solid experience in life. Later on in high school I started designing local webpages.” D: “Hi! I am D, I am head of research at Foobar Corp and we have a new apple breed: http://foo.bar/baz http://foo.bar/baz It is the best apple on the market: crisp, juicy, and perfect for pies! Let me know if we can help!” A, B, and C: “Eh?!” Now, you are perfectly in your right to disagree. But I think D is being a dick here and inserting themselves blatantly solely to attract attention to their product and adding nothing to the discussion or the community as a whole – possible because D has signed up for some god awful “business intelligence” tool that just scans various websites for mentions of “apples” so that they can insert a generic, re-usable message. Regardless, I will not monitor this conversation further as I feel we are at this point deviating far far from the topic of this “dead” thread. If you still feel the need to discuss this matter, feel free to dig up my e-mail on my personal website. Trust me, I am fairly easy to locate with my username and a keyword or two from my profile – or just look at the about page using the link to the tool I mentioned earlier in this conversation.