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The best part of his engrossing Twitter thread is that he inserts a multitweet interstitial "ad" for his passion project promoting reforestation right in the mi
by billiam 4y ago
The best part of his engrossing Twitter thread is that he inserts a multitweet interstitial "ad" for his passion project promoting reforestation right in the middle of his spiel.
- SilasX 4y agoMaybe it’s as some kind of reinforcement of his point about policing the lines between spam and non spam?
- baby 4y agothat's the best approach to growth: 1. find what's trendy 2. talk about what's trendy 3. in the middle or at the end of that, talk about how that relates to you and your work
- CamperBob2 4y agoIt's the best approach for flipping your bozo bit in the minds of most of your readers, but I don't see how that leads to "growth."
- anigbrowl 4y agoI'm sure it works across the population at large but I avoid doing business with people who engage in that kind of manipulation. They're fundamentally untrustworthy in my experience.
- dang 4y agoI know, but: "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- choppaface 4y agoI find it interesting that dang’s post about not just HN rules but also his personal feelings about yishan’s thread: * appear in the same post—- there clearly is no personal boundary with dang * direct replies to dang’s post, now the top of the comments section, are disabled whenever dang tries to “correct the record” or otherwise engage in frivolous squabbles with other HN commenters, I really hope this article pops up in the linked material. some may argue that yishan here is doing inapropriate self-promotion and that might undermine trust in his message. i hope HN readers notice how partial dang is, how he’s used HN technical features ti give his own personal feelings privilege, and the financial conflicts of interest here.
- EarlKing 4y agoYes... the irony of discussing signal-to-noise ratio issues (i.e. spam) and then spamming up your own thread. This post sponsored by Irony.