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People often say that the internet would die without intrusive ad tracking. HN is a pretty good example of the opposite, and there are many others. An electroni
by mopsi 4y ago
People often say that the internet would die without intrusive ad tracking. HN is a pretty good example of the opposite, and there are many others. An electronics store I frequent hosts old-school electronics forum, a nearby youth hobby center hosts news and forums for scale model building, and so forth.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoThe smaller your audience, the less likely you are to get trolls and just the general population of morons.
- dredmorbius 4y agoTrue, though if that's your starting cohort, or they do move in in any significant way, You Now Are Having Troll Problem. Another element is that HN's audience is largely self-segmenting such that targeted advertising would probably offer little additional benefit. The startup-founder and tech-worker pools are already global and are largely automatically segmented (filtered for) by HN's content, site dynamics, and reputation.