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The cynic will say "karma whoring" but I think it's actually because it increases the likelihood that something will happen. For example, when there were coinb
by sheetjs 13y ago
The cynic will say "karma whoring" but I think it's actually because it increases the likelihood that something will happen.
For example, when there were coinbase issues, people wouldn't get responses for weeks. However, once a post about the delays hit the front page, the founders finally responded.
So no, I'm not surprised this happened and I wouldn't be surprised to see a swift response
- jedbrown 13y agoDo you seriously think upvotes on HN have any impact on Google's motivation to get Gmail back up?
- sheetjs 13y agoIn the specific case of google, clearly no. But I've seen cases, such as with coinbase, where a post on the front page of HN really did lead to action. My summary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985
- alecdbrooks 13y agoI agree: I think the effect of HN commenting on its downtime is nonexistent for high-profile products from a giant company. Maybe if Slashdot picked up on downtime of a Google Labs product in 2004, you'd see an accelerated response, but that Google doesn't exist anymore. The most I could see is some people from Google commenting here to give some slightly more technical than average canned response in order to flatter potential recruits. (And even that is so unlikely that I wouldn't assume any Google employees commenting here are doing that unless they gave the game away somehow.)