Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
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Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
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Re: Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
#2Why would it be a surprise that people change their opinion or become more vocal after something serious occurs to the people involved.
Re: Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
#3Why would it be a surprise that people change their opinion or become more vocal after something serious occurs to the people involved.
This is Techcrunch, all they're doing is combing back through his public postings to find something they can inappropriately hype as significant.
Re: Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
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Re: Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
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Why does it matter who submits an interesting story?
Re: Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
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I actually tried to submit it before "martinoma" but was told that I was submitting too often. It's hard to say if TC really did submit its own story - throwaway accounts are quite common nowadays.
Re: Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
#7I think the takeaway here is to stop assuming you know entirely what is going on and give people the benefit of the doubt. There may be more factors involved than the ones you see; in fact, there always are -- something HN is notorious for not doing (read: AirBnB, Dropbox, etc, etc, etc, etc).
Re: Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
#8Re: Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago
#9It seems significant to me. There are a lot of users on HN whose default move is to criticize whatever story just made the main page. Maybe that's not the best default position.