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seriously you should write this as a blog (or if you are trying to be pseud, let me interview you and I'll write it) if this is SOP it's important information
by awinter-py 4y ago
seriously you should write this as a blog
(or if you are trying to be pseud, let me interview you and I'll write it)
if this is SOP it's important information
- layer8 4y agoI’m curious what benefit you think publishing the comment as a blog post would provide over the existent HN comment (which also has its own URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32855106). Possibly better SEO?
- i_am_jl 4y agoI don't think it's unreasonable to think that a blog post has an easier time gaining traction than a HN comment outside of HN users.
- layer8 4y agoHow, other than SEO? If you want to share a link to it, you already can.
- cubecul 4y agoMore that you can go deeper in context / detail, with images, styling, better links
- collyw 4y agoName a blog post that has stuck with you because you learned something useful. Could you search for it and find it easily? Now do the same for an HN comment.
- pessimizer 4y agoI'm pretty confident I could find any HN post that I remember with the search box at the bottom, or by googling it with site:news.ycombinator.com. With, half of the blogs that I liked I can't remember the name of the blog, it's probably either been dropped from search engine indexes for being older than a year or two or pushed to the 10th page by better SEO, or the site has simply vanished.
- collyw 4y agoOK, I have little doubt that many readers of HN could find something here, but I think that for the vast majority of people finding a blog post will be a lot easier than an HN post. Styling will be an obvious advantage, you will be able to take a very quick look at a blog post and be able to remember if it's what approximately you saw before or not. You will need to read at least partially through an HN post to gather if it is the wrong one and reject it.
- layer8 4y agoThat’s usually easy using Algolia when you have sufficiently unique search terms, but otherwise that’s what I meant by SEO. Any other reasons?
- i_am_jl 4y agoRich-embeds in social media/communications platforms, mostly. Simply taking up more space in a Discord/Slack/Teams/$SOCIAL channel with a bold title, an excerpt, and an image adds visibility, context and is more interesting to the viewer. A link to an HN thread is opaque, uninteresting, and context-less.
- humanistbot 4y agoI've literally never seen a link to an HN comment go viral on social media, such that my non-HN friends would read it. It happens for blog/medium/substack posts all the time.
- layer8 4y agoBut for what reason? The styling?
- elliekelly 4y agoDefinitely. HN is suspiciously devoid images. To most people on the internet in 2022 that alone makes it wholly uninteresting.
- klyrs 4y agoI often wonder how the site survives without sticky autoplay videos popping up halfway down the page and covering 80% of the content...
- dotancohen 4y agoSurely it's due to the mobile application that HN is always pushing. And the invasive tracking. And the paywall. And the ads, the ads go without saying.
- bombcar 4y agoThe ads keep HN alive. But because each one only needs to sell "one product" (the job they're hiring for) nobody hardly notices them.
- easrng 4y agoIt uses images for the upvote/downvote arrows, the Y in the header, and the spacer gifs in the table layout (yes, HN uses table layouts)
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- AkshatJ27 4y agoMore detail?
- awinter-py 4y agoGood question. Feels like there's two Qs in there: 1) when is long-form better than short form, 2) why write about problems at all? 2. Why write at all: consensus drives policy change, and information drives consensus. Writing, of any length, assembles information, bundles it into an argument, and (if the argument lands) becomes a 'capsule' around which consensus can form. 1. Why long form: room for nuance and research. Long form can include different perspectives (including stripe's -- perhaps they have a reason for these practices). It can address questions like 'what % of the industry behaves this way, what are the downsides to the banks' approach'. The interview + editing process can tease out anecdotes that sharpen the argument, or uncover new aspects of the problem. This part is selfish, but for the writer, long form lets you improve your own knowledge of the topic, and your ability to make arguments around it.
- layer8 4y agoOk, I thought you meant publishing the same text as in the comment, but as a blog post. So what you actually meant was “please expand on this in longer form”. So “blog” not necessarily as a publishing medium, but as a genre of text.
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- nibbleshifter 4y agoPeople outside of HN are more likely to click on and read a link to a blog post than a link to a random HN comment. A blog post also feels more trustworthy than a random social media site comment. Shocking, I know.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoWould appreciate this blog or further deep dives; I’d like to take it to legislators and regulators demonstrating a regulatory gap.
- atlasunshrugged 4y agoWhat specifically is the regulatory gap here?
- awinter-py 4y ago'due process' concerns around sudden blocking of routine traffic -- should platforms give notice, are they required to justify the ban in terms of their TOS + enforcement history, what is the time scale of appeals, can customers appeal to an independent body, and reporting transparency for enforcement
- toomuchtodo 4y agoThis. If you’re providing financial infrastructure, there should be exception recourse versus customers having to come to public forums to beg for help. You know, like banking regulation.
- sroussey 4y agoThe “gap” is a customer choice though. I ran payments myself in 1999 and had to get a merchant account and deal with the bad APIs of the time. People can do this today. Or use Stripe. Not a great choice, but still a choice.