TLDR: completely content-less post just tells us how unknown Referly is positioning itself as Bit.ly's competition and how they're better than the rest of the c

TLDR: completely content-less post just tells us how unknown Referly is positioning itself as Bit.ly's competition and how they're better than the rest of the crowd, with quips. No insights other than that. Call-out to my homeys in the downvote brigade, you still know I'm right. Sensationalist story leading to an underwhelming climax of "we're catching up to Bit.ly" written and submitted to gain publicity, at the cost of the quality of HN's new front page. What's the return on the investment of 5 minutes of my time? None. The total innovative content of this story could've been fit in two tweets: Our (Referly) competitor Bit.ly has launched, we're nearly done catching up and no, actually I can't think of a second tweet. This sensationalist, blog-us-at-all-cost attitude glued together with khangtoh's remark (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4097202 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4097202) about the bait and switch business model... well, compare khangtoh's complaint: > It's telling me a different story (compared to on their main page - Earn rewards like whoa.)about getting the rewards. > > "During the beta period we are not yet able to redeem your rewards, but we are saving them for you. > > We'll let you know as soon as you can claim them." > > I really felt like being Bait and Switch'ed.... Totally not whoa at this point. with: > Unlike a lot of other beautiful social sharing sites out there, we are revealling our business model from day one. You refer stuff, you earn rewards. No shenanigans (Hat tip: Twilio). While in beta we are passing through 100% of commissions to Referly users Not only completely incorrect information ("we are passing" vs "we are not passing"), but additionally what I can only understand as a quip at Twilio. Someone more to the point would just say "attention-whoring Bit.ly's limelight". You'll probably hate me, but I thought I'd give you a good ruffling since you seem new to the whole business communications thing. I only hit you cause I love you, baby.