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What strikes me as rude and presumptuous is when people complain about the HN site. There is no HN Pro with a support package. We're not paying to take part in
by nhebb 14y ago
What strikes me as rude and presumptuous is when people complain about the HN site. There is no HN Pro with a support package. We're not paying to take part in this community. It reminds me of all the stories of freemium products where the free version users are more demanding than the paying customers.
- vl 14y agoWell, this is really promotional site for Y Combinator, in the same way as Joel's blog was a promotional blog for his company (Fog Creek). So by this token we (users of the site) serve a double function - consumers and producers of content and marketing audience, i.e. we are paying for use of the site by being marketing targets.
- shanelja 14y agoI should state that I wasn't complaining about the website, merely about a single persons comment - the fact that it happened to be PG is largely irrelevant to my complaint, it could have been about anyone. Although, I believe this was covered further down the discussion but don't have time left this morning to find the link, I will try to locate it once I'm off the bus.