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The domain is dumb, Slack's hash logo is a nod to IRC and not Twitter. It doesn't represent tagging, it represents IRC channels. Edit: hey hastagstartup.co dow

by Kudos 12y ago

The domain is dumb, Slack's hash logo is a nod to IRC and not Twitter. It doesn't represent tagging, it represents IRC channels. Edit: hey hastagstartup.co downvote brigade, hashstartup.co is still available. So is hashstartups.com which is even better.

meesterdude 12y ago
lol. let me call you the waaaaaambulance. I get what you're saying, but its still fair to call it a hashtag, and for them to call it hashtagstartup.
- Kudos 12y ago
  How is it fair? It makes no sense at all and just reminds me of kids growing up with Twitter calling that character hashtag regardless of context. Solid hacker news etiquette there, by the way.
  - meesterdude 12y ago
    Its fair because people identify # as "hashtag" anyway. "poundstartup" has a more questionable ring to it. Also, you get what you dish out. Saying its "dumb" is what earned you the 15 year old in me. had you said something like "i disagree with their use of the word hashtag" it would have given an entirely different tone, don't you think?
    - Kudos 12y ago
      It would be hash startup, not pound startup. Have you ever spoken an IRC channel name before?
      - dang 12y ago
        Please don't be personally abrasive on Hacker News, even when other people seem not to know what they're talking about.
  - meesterdude 12y ago
    Also, what if their name has nothing to do with slack? what if they called it hashtagstartup because thats the topic, and what you would tag it with?
    - Kudos 12y ago
      The context is chat channels, your hypothethical sounds like it would make for a weak retroactive excuse for a poorly considered name.
  - typeformer 12y ago
    Why those young whippersnapper, outrageous, why back in my day at we called it the Octothorp, which sounds like a good and proper syntactic mark.
skrebbel 12y ago
Wrt your edit, do you really think that people downvote you because they disagree with you?
- Kudos 12y ago
  It's more than a little suspicious that I immediately got 5 down votes for my critical comment, but have since broken even on karma again. I'd like to think my further arguments below did it, but more likely this thread was posted in one of the hashtagstartup channels.
  - napoleoncomplex 12y ago
    Don't usually do this, but I'll explain the downvotes (I've never heard of this project). Your original comment felt needlessly aggressive and had nothing to do with discussing the project's merits. The follow-on comments were in the same vein, and the entire comment thread felt like a flame war for no reason. So I downvoted because I wanted to signal that I'd like to read less content like that on here. I went and checked the HN guidelines on content, and here's a few points which I felt supported the downvote: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you." And now I have contributed in uselessness to this comment thread, the cycle is complete :).
    - Kudos 12y ago
      You explained your downvote not the downvotes. 5 down within 5 minutes happens, but if it was that egregious the comment should not have recovered.

by Kudos 12y ago

meesterdude 12y ago

lol. let me call you the waaaaaambulance. I get what you're saying, but its still fair to call it a hashtag, and for them to call it hashtagstartup.

Kudos 12y ago
How is it fair? It makes no sense at all and just reminds me of kids growing up with Twitter calling that character hashtag regardless of context. Solid hacker news etiquette there, by the way.
- meesterdude 12y ago
  Its fair because people identify # as "hashtag" anyway. "poundstartup" has a more questionable ring to it. Also, you get what you dish out. Saying its "dumb" is what earned you the 15 year old in me. had you said something like "i disagree with their use of the word hashtag" it would have given an entirely different tone, don't you think?
  - Kudos 12y ago
    It would be hash startup, not pound startup. Have you ever spoken an IRC channel name before?
    - dang 12y ago
      Please don't be personally abrasive on Hacker News, even when other people seem not to know what they're talking about.
- meesterdude 12y ago
  Also, what if their name has nothing to do with slack? what if they called it hashtagstartup because thats the topic, and what you would tag it with?
  - Kudos 12y ago
    The context is chat channels, your hypothethical sounds like it would make for a weak retroactive excuse for a poorly considered name.
- typeformer 12y ago
  Why those young whippersnapper, outrageous, why back in my day at we called it the Octothorp, which sounds like a good and proper syntactic mark.

skrebbel 12y ago

Wrt your edit, do you really think that people downvote you because they disagree with you?

Kudos 12y ago
It's more than a little suspicious that I immediately got 5 down votes for my critical comment, but have since broken even on karma again. I'd like to think my further arguments below did it, but more likely this thread was posted in one of the hashtagstartup channels.
- napoleoncomplex 12y ago
  Don't usually do this, but I'll explain the downvotes (I've never heard of this project). Your original comment felt needlessly aggressive and had nothing to do with discussing the project's merits. The follow-on comments were in the same vein, and the entire comment thread felt like a flame war for no reason. So I downvoted because I wanted to signal that I'd like to read less content like that on here. I went and checked the HN guidelines on content, and here's a few points which I felt supported the downvote: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you." And now I have contributed in uselessness to this comment thread, the cycle is complete :).
  - Kudos 12y ago
    You explained your downvote not the downvotes. 5 down within 5 minutes happens, but if it was that egregious the comment should not have recovered.