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You’re having this discussion on a marketing forum.
by endisneigh 3y ago
You’re having this discussion on a marketing forum.
- shagie 3y agoFrom the ending of "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" (discussed most recently at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35855988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35855988 ) > The people using your software, even if you own it and pay for it, have rights and will behave as if they have rights. And if you abrogate those rights, you’ll hear about it very quickly. > That’s part of the problem that the John Hegel theory of community—“community leads to content, which leads to commerce”—never worked. Because lo and behold, no matter who came onto the Clairol chat boards, they sometimes wanted to talk about things that weren’t Clairol products. > “But we paid for this! This is the Clairol site!” say the sponsors. Doesn’t matter. The users are there for one another. They may be there on hardware and software paid for by you, but the users are there for one another.
- pessimizer 3y agoI don't understand what this is for. The result of the forum not serving its purpose for Clairol is that Clairol destroys the community, deletes every conversation ever had on it, and the people who participated on it never speak to each other again. Forum members only have "rights" under some definition of rights where they grant you absolutely nothing.
- krapp 3y agoIt's wild how many things Hacker News is the exception to, just because it has that quirky 90's charm.