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It's probably less of a personal thing and more of a marketing/advertisement campaign thing. The website itself claims to be organic advertising, and it's cert
by zkldi 5y ago
It's probably less of a personal thing and more of a marketing/advertisement campaign thing.
The website itself claims to be organic advertising, and it's certainly something that would work. This is actually used in practice on sides like Reddit[1].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxNvUWN3vYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxNvUWN3vYk
- MR4D 5y agoFYI - Your video link is marked as "private". Also, I don't know any companies that "advertise" on HN. I am on HN to get away from companies here - I want interaction with people. If I wanted companies, I would read everything on FB instead.
- zkldi 5y agoWhoops, looks like they took it down. There's a reupload here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAkUs3urrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SAkUs3urrg. And it depends on your definition of advertisement, I guess. A new version of $product coming out getting to the front page here is advertisement, but (in theory) organic, from people who are genuinely interested in $product. If that's taken advantage of (like it is in reddit), then you can manufacture that organic "advertising". From what other people in the thread are saying, it appears HN mods clamp down hard on this stuff, so it's probably not much of a concern here, but it's still interesting to see.