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As someone who regularly uses utm parameters, this has to be the most pathetic attempt at trolling I've ever seen. When looking at data you usually just pay att
by jwegan 12y ago
As someone who regularly uses utm parameters, this has to be the most pathetic attempt at trolling I've ever seen. When looking at data you usually just pay attention to the top performers, not the stuff at the bottom of the list with 1 or 2 clicks. Even if you did notice the troll parameters you would just shrug your shoulders and move on without spending more than a second of your day thinking about it (which is much less effort than the person who pulled of this "troll" put into it).
- IkmoIkmo 12y agoAgreed this was pretty lame. I kept on reading waiting for the inevitable 'this is on HackerNews because I wrote a program to flood them with fake analytics', instead it's literally just the one drop in the ocean. A marketeer will (not) see some silly name at the bottom of page 30 of their google analytics traffic and that's it. This is the equivalent of writing 'poop' on a survey where your name or answer is supposed to go. i.e. everyone will do it once in their lives, but we really don't need to write blog posts about it and link to them on HN. The only difference is that it's likely someone will actually read 'poop' on a survey when entering the data, whereas on GA it'll be ignored on the bottom of the list.