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> i really hate this "users told us" phrasing[...] this is one of those cargo-cult product (marketing) phrases i hear over and over Except that's a made up quo
by cxr 5y ago
> i really hate this "users told us" phrasing[...] this is one of those cargo-cult product (marketing) phrases i hear over and over
Except that's a made up quote. That phrase doesn't appear anywhere in the part you lifted from the blog post (the thing that's an _actual_ quote) or any other part of it.
- clairity 5y agotalk about a "whoosh"! sometimes we characterize a phenomenon with a succinct phrase that's meant to represent more than the literal quote.
- cxr 5y agoThat's not a "whoosh". I know what you were doing. (And it's a rotten thing to do—not least of all because your fake quote changes so much that it differs substantially in a way that your comment is not even relevant to what they actually wrote.) Don't make up quotes. It's against the rules. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13602947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13602947> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15893789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15893789>