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To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)

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Re: To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)

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Post by prteja11 »

GlennS wrote: post #119
dkersten wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> getting new users to accept invites was incredibly important to us So important that you resorted to every dark pattern in the book, it seems. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I don't know any of my tech friends who haven't had a bad experience with linkedin tricking them into spamming invites or similar.

Somewhat surprised Microsoft haven't done something about this since they bought LinkedIn. It surely doesn't reflect well on their brand. Are people at Microsoft OK with working alongside people who do this scummy stuff?

Actually this is a perfect fit. Microsoft is a big user of dark patterns - many examples of how they push windows 10 telemetry and other products like browsers, Microsoft teams installations are well documented. It’s almost like a match made in heaven. https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-google-and-microsoft-tric...

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Post by digitalsushi »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #100
cutemonster wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Asynchronous "who's on first" What does that mean? "On first"?

"Who's on First" is a well-known comedy skit about baseball. Who is on first base, What is on second, and I Don't Know is on third. https://youtu.be/kTcRRaXV-fg

Thank you for explaining that. I speak English as a first language and it parsed perfectly well without knowing this reference, and to that end, parsed perfectly incorrectly.

Re: To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)

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Post by cutemonster »

Pxtl wrote: post #114
cutemonster wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Asynchronous "who's on first" What does that mean? "On first"?

I just mean the repeated loops of miscommunication based on the fundamental misunderstanding of a single word. "Who's on first?" is a comedy sketch where two men are discussing a man named "who" and various other people with misleading names. I've run into many times where a person has said a similar but distinct term - like they said "repo" when they mean "branch" and then burn 5 minutes of time while two people are…

Ok now I get it. Async Who's on first could take a whole month I suspect

Re: To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)

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Post by Shorn »

I really want to do this. But considering my product is effectively a service to help deal with unsolicited mail - sending unsolicited email about on-boarding feels wrong.

I decided not to do it (after sending one, doh >.Though I am going to build something into my on-boarding process so that people can opt-in for these.

Re: To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)

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Post by pvorb »

formerly_proven wrote: post #17

The shorter the email the more believable it becomes that it was specifically written by a human directed at you, not a mass-used template. If you feel like you get an automatic email, you're not going to respond, because you don't want to talk to a computer. If, on the other hand, you can suspend your disbelief and entertain the fiction that someone named "Valerie" at E-Corp personally contacted you, you are infinit…

Put in a typo somewhere and it will appear even more likely to be written by a human.

Re: To Get More Replies, Say Less (2017)

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Post by lebaux »

chimen wrote: post #118
dennisgorelik wrote: post #112

1) Netlify traffic dropped 4x in May 2020 [1] 2) Email - is very small part of Netlify traffic (0.99%). 3) $97.1M funding. Last round - $53M on Mar 4, 2020 [2] [1] https://www.similarweb.com/website/netlify.com [2] https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organ...

I'm one of those that dropped and moved to Firebase. The monthly payments were topping somewhere at $130 for a static website with 700-800 daily visitors and Netlify was starting to corner me into paying extra for every little detail possible. I clearly felt that onboarding was off and it's time to milk every cent.

Funnily enough, they slashed their prices 3 days ago. https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/07/21/netlify-expands-pric...

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Post by cutemonster »

owaty wrote: post #115
cutemonster wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> don't let them know what you're against or what you're for Why not?

It's a quote from Hamilton, the musical.

Thanks for explaining. (Here I found some people's thoughts about that phrase: https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/5y81cw/talk_less_sm... )
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