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I don't think that's the case. If you browse HN somewhat regularly, you'll see that a lot of times when a post makes it to the top (Or close enough) it's very l

by ericol 6y ago

I don't think that's the case. If you browse HN somewhat regularly, you'll see that a lot of times when a post makes it to the top (Or close enough) it's very likely that a related post will make the rounds pretty soon. I think it's more related to people trying to ride the karma wave than "A coordinated takedown of ad tech companies". And it is effective, because it happens way too often.

bigdict 6y ago
I agree, I remember reading an article or a comment explaining this phenomenon on HN, with examples. Nevertheless it would be interesting if the idea of digital ads being ineffective snowballed to the point where it became like a self-fulfilling prophecy, and led to the demise of large companies that we think of as "giants" or "monopolies".
- pydry 6y ago
  Or a coordinated "strike" by major ad spenders. I'll bet that a lot of ad spend is zero sum. They'd probably rather share profits than boost google's.
dang 6y ago
Yes, this was just a standard follow-up [1] and we did the standard counter-follow-up, which is to merge the threads. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRang...
- bigdict 6y ago
  Hi dang, I'm wondering is there a list of HN phenomena that you've noticed over the years? Examples would be: 1. follow-up submissions 2. an initial wave of critical comments followed by a wave of apologist comments 3. first page of comments occupied by a single top level comment with lots of descendants (you often post to draw attention to other pages of comments in these cases)
  - dang 6y ago
    There's no systematic list but I use links to HN Search (like in the GP) to refer to such patterns. There must be a hundred such categories by now. Eventually I may try to compile them into something more standardized.

by ericol 6y ago

bigdict 6y ago

I agree, I remember reading an article or a comment explaining this phenomenon on HN, with examples. Nevertheless it would be interesting if the idea of digital ads being ineffective snowballed to the point where it became like a self-fulfilling prophecy, and led to the demise of large companies that we think of as "giants" or "monopolies".

pydry 6y ago
Or a coordinated "strike" by major ad spenders. I'll bet that a lot of ad spend is zero sum. They'd probably rather share profits than boost google's.

dang 6y ago

Yes, this was just a standard follow-up [1] and we did the standard counter-follow-up, which is to merge the threads. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRang...

bigdict 6y ago
Hi dang, I'm wondering is there a list of HN phenomena that you've noticed over the years? Examples would be: 1. follow-up submissions 2. an initial wave of critical comments followed by a wave of apologist comments 3. first page of comments occupied by a single top level comment with lots of descendants (you often post to draw attention to other pages of comments in these cases)
- dang 6y ago
  There's no systematic list but I use links to HN Search (like in the GP) to refer to such patterns. There must be a hundred such categories by now. Eventually I may try to compile them into something more standardized.