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The smaller your audience, the less likely you are to get trolls and just the general population of morons.
by Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
The 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.