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Appreciate it.
by benjlang 14y ago
Appreciate it.
- pc86 14y agoYou know what @jacques_chester said further up the page? This is what he was talking about.
- talmand 14y agoYes, especially since there appears to be a set of almost new accounts with little or no karma and no comment history being positive in response. This is an old marketing trick and is also a serious dilution problem. Your favorite deity of choice forbid HN turns into a marketing gimmick that plagued Digg.
- benjlang 14y agoSorry that I recommended a few people at the presentation to sign up for Hacker News and they saw that I posted this here and commented. Didn't realized Hacker News was closed for registration in your opinion.
- talmand 14y agoI don't think I said anything about registration being closed and that new people shouldn't get involved. What I pointed out was that there were a few fairly new accounts with little or no history here at all with positive responses to your article. This is a known marketing gimmick to, I shall use your word, "hack" a site in an attempt to game the system. Considering the subject of your "hacking" article then I don't find it wrong to consider that possibility. If this is not the case and it is as you say, then I will gladly apologize and say good for you. But you are the one that suggested spamming sites in an effort to boost visitation numbers.