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Slashdot.org was plagued by people posting "first post" to every story, so they implemented an automatic "first post" comment to each article, that was removed
by mortehu 6y ago
Slashdot.org was plagued by people posting "first post" to every story, so they implemented an automatic "first post" comment to each article, that was removed as soon as other comments appeared. Maybe this comment ("Google will shut this down like so many other products") should be similarly posted automatically to Hacker News on every Google story?
- heavyset_go 6y agoIt's ironic how my least favorite genre of posts are posts that complain about other posts.
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- dmurray 6y agoHN could also offer you the option to hide the automatic "Google will shut this down" post, and all its replies.
- sirlatrom 6y agoWoooosh ;)
- organian 6y agoIt's ironic how my least favorite genre of comments are about people discussing the correct usage of the word "ironic".
- asdfk-12 6y agoPerhaps this listing service would get more goodwill from users and business if they were to pay sellers a commission when a listed item sells. Google's extractive (no, it's actually not 'free') business model has become quite tiresome, and they seem to have wasted their first-mover advantage over the past decade.
- jjcon 6y agoAlternatively Google could just grow a spine and stop reinventing the same app year after year. The worst part is that they go all pikachu face when people react with wtf.
- bdcravens 6y agoCould add the same logic for the inevitable "self host it" when Github is down, or the "but we did it first!" comment from Gitlab whenever Github announces a feature.