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Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by raimonds »

aw3c2 wrote: post #9
tptacek wrote: post #5

a. We seem to have pretty bad (or at least predictable) taste in movies. b. The list is missing the two most important movies to HN: The Shawshank Redemption, which is about how you're never going to close funding until you give up on ever closing funding, and Ghostbusters, the greatest startup movie of all time.

HN is not a movie community so it seems rather pointless anyways (cue "HN is always negative comments"). Seems like a cheap way to grab amazon affiliate money and I find that unethical.

Sorry if it feels like that. Main link goes straight to IMDB, it's non-affiliated. I show general opt-out link in the sidebar. Other pages have both affiliated and non-affiliated links in the lists of items.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by rkuykendall-com »

aw3c2 wrote: post #9
tptacek wrote: post #5

a. We seem to have pretty bad (or at least predictable) taste in movies. b. The list is missing the two most important movies to HN: The Shawshank Redemption, which is about how you're never going to close funding until you give up on ever closing funding, and Ghostbusters, the greatest startup movie of all time.

HN is not a movie community so it seems rather pointless anyways (cue "HN is always negative comments"). Seems like a cheap way to grab amazon affiliate money and I find that unethical.

That's funny, because a few weeks ago somebody did the same exact thing but with books and no affiliate links. All the comments were about how he should add affiliate links, and that HN appreciates projects which make money.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by barranger »

aw3c2 wrote: post #9
tptacek wrote: post #5

a. We seem to have pretty bad (or at least predictable) taste in movies. b. The list is missing the two most important movies to HN: The Shawshank Redemption, which is about how you're never going to close funding until you give up on ever closing funding, and Ghostbusters, the greatest startup movie of all time.

HN is not a movie community so it seems rather pointless anyways (cue "HN is always negative comments"). Seems like a cheap way to grab amazon affiliate money and I find that unethical.

it's unethical that the OP is financially rewarded for building something?

Considering the affiliate links offer the exact same user experience as if they didn't use affiliate links, I find you comment perplexing.

Re: Show HN: Most mentioned movies on HN

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

rquantz wrote: post #4
raimonds wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. This is just an index of links to IMDB from stories and comments. I couldn't come up with anything better/more accurate.

Ah, that explains it. I couldn't believe Star Wars wasn't on the list. But nobody needs to link to Star Wars. It seems this only works for the middle tier of movie mentions. Anything that's really common currency will be missed.

But will it really be missed? Who needs a list of the most common movies, we already know of them. I also know most of the movies on this middle tier list, but there are still a couple that I hadn’t heard of (and am looking into now). For HN users, I think the chosen method is a lot more useful.
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