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This looks like a joke. Is this real?
by ddkrone 15y ago
This looks like a joke. Is this real?
- mattdeboard 15y agoPlease take a look at the HN etiquette guidelines here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Specifically the following paragraphs: "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. 'That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3' can be shortened to '1 + 1 is 2, not 3.'" If you've got some criticisms, how about stating them explicitly instead of so off-handedly insulting someone else's hard work?
- ddkrone 15y agoI really meant it looks like a prank. So I don't see what the point of taking out the etiquette guidelines does in this case. The whole premise of managing twitter, facebook, tumbler, etc. all in one place sounds like a joke to me. What's next? Browse in IE, Firefox and Chrome all at the same time from one convenient location. Every single social app currently has the option of blasting every single thing you post on them to all the other ones and that kind of setup doesn't sound like a feature it sounds more like a bug.
- mattdeboard 15y agoThe whole premise of managing twitter, facebook, tumbler, etc. all in one place sounds like a joke to me. I'm sure Facebook didn't think it was a joke when they paid $50 million for FriendFeed, which did exactly that. http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfeed/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfee...
- ddkrone 15y agoAnd how many people still use FriendFeed? It is now overrun by auto quote bots and viagra spam. Also, I don't see how facebook approving of something makes the idea any less idiotic.
- derwiki 15y agoThe FriendFeed team all joined Facebook. I'd imagine less people would use FriendFeed as it became much less actively developed.
- mattdeboard 15y agoSee, here's the thing -- thinking the idea of feed aggregators is a dumb one, and a net negative to society is one thing. But shitting all over a guy's work by calling it a prank or a joke in a venue that is predicated on the value of small-time entrepreneurs taking gambles on their ideas... How do you think that is ok? Just to be clear, this guy didn't invent feed aggregators. There are a bajillion of them. You've got a beef with society, not this guy's work. He's trying to make money serving an underserved niche. I hope he makes a billion dollars.
- ddkrone 15y agoI have nothing against society but I do have something against the OP. Clearly he and his friends have the technical expertise to make something but instead of doing something worthwhile they have created another weapon for the spin doctors. And yes he will make millions because campaign managers these days manage more money than some hedge fund managers but the rest of us won't be better off because of it.
- mattdeboard 15y agoThen go to Reddit and bitch about it. This isn't the venue.
- ddkrone 15y agoMay I point you to the etiquette guidelines for the proper way of shooing someone away. You have hurt my feelings by the blunt way you have expressed yourself.
- ile 15y agoJealous? I think that's a great idea.
- ddkrone 15y agoJealous? Of what? Another half-ass workaround for fixing the ADD problem of the voting populace?
- ile 15y agoAt least you admitted it fixes a problem.
- ddkrone 15y agoIn fact I think it does the opposite. This doesn't fix anything. It makes the problem worse. In our current politics there is absolutely no real dialog between the politicians and people. Blasting twitter updates and facebook status updates to your followers is the shallowest kind of follower engagement because even though everyone can retweet and comment on those status updates no one really does any real communicating in those mediums. For a guy who claims to want to fix the political landscape this is clearly a step in the wrong direction.
- bdclimber14 15y agoYou're obviously very passionate about politics. What's your background, and how are you going to fix the problem?
- ddkrone 15y agoIt's not about being passionate about politics and my background is in mathematics and cs, two of the least political subjects out there. If I was going to devote time and effort to doing anything political then it certainly wouldn't be about empowering the marketing/spin machine used by politicians. I would instead focus on tools to empower individual citizens and give them the tools to fight back the spin machine. This doesn't do anything of the sort.
- bdclimber14 15y agoYou are being incredibly rude and attacking. This is a real pain for some people, and the OP has built a solution to solve that. Having a dozen distributed communication mediums that you have to manage and stay on top of may not be your pain, but that doesn't me its no one's pain.
- ddkrone 15y agoI didn't say it's not a pain. I just think if you're trying to engage users then blasting them with updates on all fronts is the wrong approach and doesn't change anything about the current political setup.
- bdclimber14 15y ago> doesn't change anything about the current political setup. A startup doesn't have to do that. This startup is solving the pain of the politicians, and looks like they may do that well.