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No, but how about the 500 that have been profitable under GAAP accounting rules for at least 12 months have a public float of at least 10% (so that new invest
by forlorn_mammoth 5mo ago
No, but how about the 500 that
have been profitable under GAAP accounting rules for at least 12 months
have a public float of at least 10% (so that new investors have some governance rights)
have traded for at least 12 months (and won't have sudden changes in public float or shares available due to lockups and recent listing)
- l23k4 5mo agoWhy is that set of rules particularly good?
- bigbuppo 5mo agoMove slow, fix things.
- l23k4 5mo agoWould approximately 30 years not have been a long enough time horizon to move on this, or what?
- disgruntledphd2 5mo agoUltimately, it's consistency that's more important with stuff like this (IMO, obviously).
- dudeinhawaii 5mo agoNo offense but your responses sound like AI or engagement farming. I think the "why are these rules good" is self-evident to anyone who read the comment.
- l23k4 5mo ago[flagged]
- maplethorpe 5mo ago> Why would anyone "engagement farm" on HN? That's crazy. All sorts of reasons! One is that when you reach 1000 karma, you gain the ability to downvote comments. You seem like a smart person. I'm sure you can think of some reasons why that might be useful.
- krapp 5mo agoI mean, this forum is run by a billion dollar startup incubator. People make farming HN a part of their business model.
- l23k4 5mo agoThis is just silly. HN rewards comments people agree with, not "engagement". Engagement farming works on social media platforms that reward engagement. Posting engagement bait in HN comments would just result in downvotes.
- maplethorpe 5mo agoHN rewards engagement in the form of upvotes. If you make a post or comment with the intention of getting upvotes, you're engagement farming. I hate to break it to you, but there are many people doing that on this website. Why do you think all engagement farming would result in downvotes? You think HN posters are so keen at sniffing out bad actors that they would never reward them by accident? It feels like you're being willfully dense about this. I can see why the other person accused you of being AI.
- walletdrainer 4mo ago[flagged]
- maplethorpe 4mo agoYou're conflating engagement farming and rage-baiting. Engagement can be both positive and negative. I can't find any online sources that agree with your definition. Here's one that I think sums it up pretty well: "Engagement farming refers to a range of deceptive practices on social media designed to artificially inflate engagement metrics such as likes, shares, comments, and followers." "Engagement farming employs various tactics to exploit social media algorithms, with the intent to appear more popular than actual user interest would warrant. Examples include posting controversial content to provoke emotional responses, repurposing successful posts without originality, and using automated systems for mass liking or following." [1] If you don't think this is happening on HN (especially to mass downvote posts) you're naive. [1] https://www.isme.in/engagement-farming-prof-sriram-prabhakar/ https://www.isme.in/engagement-farming-prof-sriram-prabhakar...