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It would be good to see the email that caused the ruckus... or did I just miss it in the post?

by lux 16y ago

brown9-2 16y ago
I don't think you missed it. 848 words in the article and yet no mention of the actual email that was such a problem.
ErrantX 16y ago
I dug around my email box and I think this is the one: http://www.errant.me.uk/code/snip/10 http://www.errant.me.uk/code/snip/10 It was long. And very odd. I'm kinda used to that from Appsumo by now so it didn't really register for me. Truth be told, I just clicked through to see the offer straight away and ignored the rest as TL;DR. Reading it now.. the nicest description I can come up with is "rambling" EDIT: Patio11 has a point about the formatting :) so: http://errant.me.uk/appsumo.html http://errant.me.uk/appsumo.html
- RyanMcGreal 16y ago
  Yikes. I suspect I'd be one of the people to consider unsubscribing after receiving an email like that.
- mayukh 16y ago
  Looks like the more recent ones have a TL;DR section right upfront. http://pastie.org/1726812 http://pastie.org/1726812
- zephjc 16y ago
  Wow. Kind of reminds me of a cross between http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk and http://www.timecube.com/ http://www.timecube.com/
- sid0 16y ago
  You should set your page's charset to UTF-8.
- kellishaver 16y ago
  Wow. In what universe is this considered good copy writing?
- kellishaver 16y ago
  Wow. In what universe is this considered good copy writing?
patio11 16y ago
http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/appsumo-march-2.png http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/appsumo-m... Posted as an image to preserve the distinctive formatting. Continues in that kind of vein for a while.
- lux 16y ago
  Thanks! That definitely adds context to the post. It's funny but I can definitely see some people not caring for the type of humour.
- hasenj 16y ago
  haha, definitely looks like spam
- mikiem 16y ago
  Well, if that's the magic email number 3, then I think maybe he lost all the subscriber who had been stalked or had been arrested for stalking. In either case, I can guess those folks didn't find it very funny... The rest of us might.

It would be good to see the email that caused the ruckus... or did I just miss it in the post?

by lux 16y ago

It would be good to see the email that caused the ruckus... or did I just miss it in the post?

brown9-2 16y ago

I don't think you missed it. 848 words in the article and yet no mention of the actual email that was such a problem.

ErrantX 16y ago

I dug around my email box and I think this is the one: http://www.errant.me.uk/code/snip/10 http://www.errant.me.uk/code/snip/10 It was long. And very odd. I'm kinda used to that from Appsumo by now so it didn't really register for me. Truth be told, I just clicked through to see the offer straight away and ignored the rest as TL;DR. Reading it now.. the nicest description I can come up with is "rambling" EDIT: Patio11 has a point about the formatting :) so: http://errant.me.uk/appsumo.html http://errant.me.uk/appsumo.html

RyanMcGreal 16y ago
Yikes. I suspect I'd be one of the people to consider unsubscribing after receiving an email like that.
mayukh 16y ago
Looks like the more recent ones have a TL;DR section right upfront. http://pastie.org/1726812 http://pastie.org/1726812
zephjc 16y ago
Wow. Kind of reminds me of a cross between http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk and http://www.timecube.com/ http://www.timecube.com/
sid0 16y ago
You should set your page's charset to UTF-8.
kellishaver 16y ago
Wow. In what universe is this considered good copy writing?
kellishaver 16y ago
Wow. In what universe is this considered good copy writing?

patio11 16y ago

http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/appsumo-march-2.png http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/appsumo-m... Posted as an image to preserve the distinctive formatting. Continues in that kind of vein for a while.

lux 16y ago
Thanks! That definitely adds context to the post. It's funny but I can definitely see some people not caring for the type of humour.
hasenj 16y ago
haha, definitely looks like spam
mikiem 16y ago
Well, if that's the magic email number 3, then I think maybe he lost all the subscriber who had been stalked or had been arrested for stalking. In either case, I can guess those folks didn't find it very funny... The rest of us might.