Samsung agency is buying off StackOverflow users
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#2Those kind of competitions are really just work with non-guaranteed pay.
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#3$500 to be a whore. No.
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#4You realize you're promoting it on HN now right?
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#5And then you put it in HN front page. It is probably a lot more than the visibility in StackOverflow... =)
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#6This is, in my mind, evidence that companies like this are out of touch. They want to treat Stack Overflow like a search engine and marketing tool to be optimized, and, in their ignorance, don't see it as something different than what it actually is: a community of people passionate about their craft and helping others with it.
Eventually people are going to learn that the way you leverage a community like that toward doing something is to become a respected member of the community yourself. It seems that today is not that say for Samsung. Honestly, they would have been smarter to just have their engineering team dedicate time to answering questions on SO every week, then have a piece done in tech media about why. That is still a bit gimmicky, I guess, but much cooler than this method.
I know that I, at least, would be really entertained to have an exchange with a Samsung engineer about a problem I was having on SO.
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#7I try to refrain from being a spelling nazi here, but "So, I shot back this brisque email" made me laugh. It's like a portmanteau of "brusque" and "brisk."
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#8http://www.techspot.com/news/52274-samsung-admits-to-posting...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7192/update-on-gpu-optimizatio...
Maybe they know that the HTC One is a better phone?
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#9And their example questions would be off-topic on Stack Overflow and likely closed immediately. Whoever is behind this seems to have no idea what SO is and how it works beyond "it's a huge site with programmers on it".
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#10You realize you're promoting it on HN now right?
It doesn't exactly put it in a good light. It's quite stomach turning actually. Having said that, I'm a little tired of HN's never ending ability to find something to be outraged about, so despite this particular thing pushing everyone of my buttons I'm going to pass. The internet is a big place, filled with lots of people doing things, and there's probably enough material out there to always be outraged every day of your life if you really want to be.