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schadenfreude by who? Certainly not by Google or the media.
by arkitaip 13y ago
schadenfreude by who? Certainly not by Google or the media.
- tptacek 13y agoBy people who are not fans of Rap Genius, of which there are many. (I like the site, for what it's worth).
- arkitaip 13y agoThere have been some bad comments here for sure but the waste majority has been civilized and reasonable because ultimately black hat seo tears the fabric of web trust apart. Personally, I have nothing against RG but I do expect more from a YC startup.
- 001sky 13y agoRight, but this is a link to a piece of data. Calling it "emotive" is odd.
- tedks 13y agoAll data is emotive. All emotions stem from data. When you look at the Mona Lisa or hear Sun by Koreless (IMO the most beautiful piece of music from 2013) you're processing data. It's just wave oscillations or light refraction.
- 001sky 13y agoNo, data is not per-se emotive. You're confusing (amongst other things) the sub-set data that is aesthtetic, with the complet set of Data, and in vaguely more technical terms making an inference that is invalid.
- sprobertson 13y agoIf the data didn't stir some emotion, it wouldn't have been updated to the front page.
- 001sky 13y agoIf the data didn't stir some [curiosity], it wouldn't have been updated to the front page. =/= If the data didn't stir some [shit], it wouldn't have been updated to the front page.
- sprobertson 13y agoOops, upvoted. But yes, those are two possible emotive situations that this piece of data might stir.
- w1ntermute 13y agoWhy was it disliked (prior to this incident)?
- yuubi 13y agoMaybe the Heroku trouble? http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-money-trees-rap-genius-response-to-heroku-lyrics http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-money-trees-rap-genius-respo...
- notatoad 13y agoI don't think the product itself is disliked, just the founders.
- Crito 13y agoThere was a Gawker article a while ago that accused the very concept of the site of being racist. Of course, you know, Gawker... not to be taken seriously.