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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

• 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");})();
            • justincormack 12y ago
              Easier just to ignore it completely, why should I waste my time on overriding their stupidity? Actually Google seem to be dropping them down the ranks, as I rarely see a Quora link now.
            • rcfox 12y ago
              Off topic, but this code blob broke the formatting of the HN comment page, causing text to extend horizontally off the screen. It'd be great if you (or a mod) could add some (4, I think?) spaces in front of your code to make it appear in a code/pre tag. Like this.
        • calbear81 12y ago
          Yahoo! Answers results are often quite entertaining. I treat it as a comedy site.
    • ahlatimer 12y ago
      I'm a former Get Sat employee (I left about two months ago). While the company may have done that early on, we definitely did NOT continue that at any point when I was there. There were a few communities like that we still kept up because there was some activity, but we certainly weren't adding new ones. In fact, we were actively pruning communities that had no activity and were on the old, free accounts when I left. In the 2.5 years I was there, the only communities we launched were ones we were paid to launch.
      • mattmanser 12y ago
        Yeah, but the linked blog post is from 6 years ago. So like 3 years before you joined.