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Then you shoud take care to not make your posts look like a blatant astroturf. What I mean is that you have wasted a whole display worth of real estate that co
by JanezStupar 13y ago
Then you shoud take care to not make your posts look like a blatant astroturf.
What I mean is that you have wasted a whole display worth of real estate that could be used for meaningful conversation, while the data you provided could be accessed by a simple click to a single link, or by executing a simple google query.
This is not your average forum, we aspire to higher standards.
- iamshs 13y agoI am not accountable to you. People liked it, they voted it. You do not like the comment and the tablet, hence are throwing blatant allegation of astroturfing. I am just a simple engineer trying to make a living from engineering surfaces. I come on HN because I like some tech, and have used it extensively. But wow you are just throwing allegation that I am being on payroll of either Nokia or MS, just vicious man. I do not need to tone down my language to appease you. "This is not your average forum, we aspire to higher standards." higher standards? Like you throwing accusations? Yeah, because you collectively represent HN. There are posters which post high quality content making it a good forum. But making yourself out as a torch-bearer of some sort while on the same time passing caustic remarks.
- JanezStupar 13y agoThe mere fact of how soon this story got flagged off the front page proves that it is not high quality content.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoBecause Engadget is such a crappy tech site now? Disgusting.
- JanezStupar 13y agoMy flag was not nearly enough and it had nothing to do with endgaged, but with thread quality.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoJust because you guys took a dump on the submit doesn't mean it deserved to be flagged. Seriously, I've never thought of HN as an immature reddit/slashdot-like place before today, and I've been on for much longer than you.
- throwawaykf 13y agoPity that cooldeals and recoiledsnake don't even bother showing up these days. They had quite a few examples where articles that were favorable (or heck, even non-negative) to Microsoft consistently got flagged off the front page. There's a pretty strong anti-MS voting contingent on here, and they'd call it out every time it happened. And for that they'd be accused of being, I kid you not, "Microsoft zealots"!
- iamshs 13y agoI remember that one of my first interaction on this site was with recoiledsnake in fact, where he pointed towards said anti-MS nature of this site. Today, I have been accused of being a shill 3 times. I totally feel how it must have been for those guys. I can totally accuse them of being apple or google PR people, without any credible evidence, it seems.
- jasonlotito 13y agoIt was high quality content. It didn't get removed from the front page because of the content of the story. Rather, because of comments like yours. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6596311 > I always find it funny when new members of a community assail veterans with accusations of eternal September type of behaviour. You new people and your eternal September behavior...
- atlantic 13y agoWe had a similar post recently for a new Apple phone. I don't remember seeing any accusations of astro-turfing on that occasion.
- JanezStupar 13y agoBecause I wasn't participating in that thread. Else I would have complained and flagged just the same.
- freehunter 13y agoWow, pretentious much? You want his posts catered directly to you so that you don't become suspicious, and you call him out asking him to meet your "higher standards"? You're right, we do aspire to higher standards. I wouldn't say your posts always fit that bill though.