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But honestly, noticeable articles are noticeable for their noticeable ideas, not noticeable words. Noticeable words backfire, turning people off. Fair point ab

• unalone 17y ago
  This wasn't a good Hacker News article. It wasn't written to be. I've actually got one in the works now that I was going to submit here this week; this was geared towards my usual reader constituency of artsier types. That comment here was the first time in a week and a half I've seen anybody comment on the word "shit", actually. When I wrote it I expected that might be a turn-off; I guess after it caught on in the blogosphere I got used to people treating it like it wasn't overdosing on the word.