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Posts like this timed with the IPO remind me this forum is basically a marketing engine. Let’s not ever forget that.
by endisneigh 3y ago
Posts like this timed with the IPO remind me this forum is basically a marketing engine.
Let’s not ever forget that.
- nyc_data_geek 3y agoThat is, unfortunately, the vast majority of the Internet at this point.
- ohyes 3y agoI have a hard time conceiving of a platform one could currently make that would not become closer to a marketing platform the more user engagement it receives. Maybe niche BBs or a platform with enough distasteful content that no company wants their brand associated with it. (Ex. 4chan)
- uaserussia 3y ago[flagged]
- account42 3y agoI think you might need to adapt that strategy for the modern world where sexual degeneracy has become acceptable for corporate messaging.
- FactKnower69 3y agoExplain this normal post you just made. Are you talking about how Steve Huffman was a moderator and champion of r/Jailbait?
- uaserussia 3y ago[dead]
- giancarlostoro 3y agoHN is a social media platform. I think the kind of marketing going on in HN is decently acceptable. This post was still very interesting to me, which fits the spirit of HN.
- MoOmer 3y agoI’m anti-spam myself, but I wouldn’t draw that conclusion from this post. It’s a post that links to a blog post on the YC primary domain site (that is, their company site), and we are on a YC forum hosted on a subdomain of the parent YC domain. I wouldn’t visit Reddit’s blog and interpret talk about their successes there as indicating that the entire forum(s?) exist for marketing the parent. And although, the HN forum itself definitely is great marketing, I mean to say that not all the content is marketing for YC. I also wouldn’t draw that conclusion if someone who worked at Reddit submitted the blog post to a subreddit and it got upvoted there. Unless it was boosted here, it’s only on the front page because of others voting it up. It’s more likely that it’s the PG effect!
- _pi 3y agoHN is literally marketing.... Startups literally "launch" on here whether they're Y Combinator affiliates or not. The content of any forum cannot be mostly marketing, because that literally means there's a lack of organic impressions and the money / time /effort is better spent elsewhere. >It’s more likely that it’s the PG effect! You've described a marketing phenomenon.
- meowface 3y agoY Combinator is an investment firm, Reddit is a Y Combinator-funded company, Paul Graham is an essayist who had Y Combinator invest in Reddit, and this is news.ycombinator.com (where people often like to read things written by Paul Graham and things written about YC companies). It's both an interesting recollection and something to help the IPO. Is it really so bad if it's both?
- rybosworld 3y ago> It's an interesting recollection Replace recollection with "revisionist history"
- sakura24 3y ago[dead]
- gonzo41 3y agoWait, I have a javascript framework I want to tell you about....
- phone8675309 3y agoThey've never tried to hide that (to their credit)