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"Quick clarification: Many, many of the investors & employees didn't see any money, not just the founders. That's what I meant by fire sale." https://t

"Quick clarification: Many, many of the investors & employees didn't see any money, not just the founders. That's what I meant by fire sale." https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585808886508040192 https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585808886508040192

nacs 12y ago
And the firesale tweet: To be fair, it was a total firesale. In the years since we all got politely pushed out, the business had completely tanked. https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585797874300035072 https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585797874300035072 Also: Usually they at least throw the founders some hush money, but we didn't even get that! So I promise you'll hear more about it soon. https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585798828822892545 https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585798828822892545
- x0x0 12y ago
  Maybe my memory is incorrect, but they were kind of sketchy; their page implied companies not paying them weren't interested in customer interaction and they wanted $1200/year to get rid of competitors' ads before 37 signals called them out: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
  - mattmanser 12y ago
    I seem to remember at the time there was about 1/2 year - year where Google loved them and you'd get a Get Satisfaction result for googling "[company name] support". GS were HN darlings for a little bit, then started getting annoying because you'd land on this pointless page, then 37signals (rightfully) publicly called them out, then google seemed to delist them in a panda or something and then everyone forgot about them.
    - bananaboy 12y ago
      Whenever I ended up on a getsatisfaction page after searching for something I always felt like I had landed on some kind of dodgy crappy aggregator rather than anything official.
    - moe 12y ago
      then google seemed to delist them in a panda And rightfully so. They were a pest, just like the spam-site by that Calamaris guy from Netscape around the same time. Lesson learned: If you depend on search traffic then don't be obnoxious. Otherwise nobody will speak up for you when Google snaps your neck. Hey Google, why is Quora (expert-sexchange 2.0) still polluting my search results anyway?
      - codinghorror 12y ago
        Could be worse, could be a Yahoo Answers result.
        bduerst 12y ago
        At least you don't have to log in with a social network to see the answers.
        motoboi 12y ago
        I suppose you know that answers are on the bottom of the page. Right?
        cheepin 12y ago
        Here you go. Not super efficient, but a little bookmarklet to get rid of the most annoying things about Quora javascript:(function(){function a(c){var e=document.getElementsByTagName('*'),i;for(i in e){if((' '+e[i].className+' ').indexOf(' '+c+' ')>-1){e[i].style.display="none";}}}a("modal_signup_background");a("modal_signup_dialog");a("modal_signup_facepile");})();
        12y ago

nacs 12y ago

And the firesale tweet: To be fair, it was a total firesale. In the years since we all got politely pushed out, the business had completely tanked. https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585797874300035072 https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585797874300035072 Also: Usually they at least throw the founders some hush money, but we didn't even get that! So I promise you'll hear more about it soon. https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585798828822892545 https://twitter.com/monstro/status/585798828822892545

x0x0 12y ago
Maybe my memory is incorrect, but they were kind of sketchy; their page implied companies not paying them weren't interested in customer interaction and they wanted $1200/year to get rid of competitors' ads before 37 signals called them out: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
- mattmanser 12y ago
  I seem to remember at the time there was about 1/2 year - year where Google loved them and you'd get a Get Satisfaction result for googling "[company name] support". GS were HN darlings for a little bit, then started getting annoying because you'd land on this pointless page, then 37signals (rightfully) publicly called them out, then google seemed to delist them in a panda or something and then everyone forgot about them.
  - bananaboy 12y ago
    Whenever I ended up on a getsatisfaction page after searching for something I always felt like I had landed on some kind of dodgy crappy aggregator rather than anything official.
  - moe 12y ago
    then google seemed to delist them in a panda And rightfully so. They were a pest, just like the spam-site by that Calamaris guy from Netscape around the same time. Lesson learned: If you depend on search traffic then don't be obnoxious. Otherwise nobody will speak up for you when Google snaps your neck. Hey Google, why is Quora (expert-sexchange 2.0) still polluting my search results anyway?
    - codinghorror 12y ago
      Could be worse, could be a Yahoo Answers result.
      - bduerst 12y ago
        At least you don't have to log in with a social network to see the answers.
        motoboi 12y ago
        I suppose you know that answers are on the bottom of the page. Right?
        cheepin 12y ago
        Here you go. Not super efficient, but a little bookmarklet to get rid of the most annoying things about Quora javascript:(function(){function a(c){var e=document.getElementsByTagName('*'),i;for(i in e){if((' '+e[i].className+' ').indexOf(' '+c+' ')>-1){e[i].style.display="none";}}}a("modal_signup_background");a("modal_signup_dialog");a("modal_signup_facepile");})();
        12y ago