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Re: Show HN: My new project - ask.io

#11

I don't know, maybe I'm too cynical, but I don't think posting personal information online is a good idea.

I couldn't agree more. This has something like 4chan spam written all over it. They have done much worse, from much less. It's messed up, but it's a sad truth.

I don't see why you had to name 4chan into this.

They have done nice things as well, like http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/2148248/4chan-Gives-...

Re: Show HN: My new project - ask.io

#14

I don't know, maybe I'm too cynical, but I don't think posting personal information online is a good idea.

If your street address isn’t on the internet you are doing way better than I.

Some recruiter a 5 or 7 years ago or so went so far as to scan my paper resume, (with my address), did OCR, and posted it on the net.

My wife’s in a profession that needs registration with the state - they post the office address in the net - so no home offices.

Got a land line, and in the white pages - like everyone in my parent’s generation? Your address is on whitepages.com (and plenty of other places.)

The number of ways this info leaks to the net is astounding.

Re: Show HN: My new project - ask.io

#16

Interesting idea. I am pretty sure I might put up something up there someday.

> I am pretty sure I might put up something up there someday

This sounds like a nice way of saying you'll completely forget about this website in several hours and will never put anything on it ever.

Or at least I'm pretty sure that's what it might mean :)

Re: Show HN: My new project - ask.io

#17
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I couldn't agree more. This has something like 4chan spam written all over it. They have done much worse, from much less. It's messed up, but it's a sad truth.

I don't see why you had to name 4chan into this. They have done nice things as well, like http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/2148248/4chan-Gives-...

Because 4chan is the worst place on the internet!!!!!!!!!

Re: Show HN: My new project - ask.io

#18
post #16

Interesting idea. I am pretty sure I might put up something up there someday.

> I am pretty sure I might put up something up there someday This sounds like a nice way of saying you'll completely forget about this website in several hours and will never put anything on it ever. Or at least I'm pretty sure that's what it might mean :)

I choose to not sound cocky here. But, I have bookmarked it and I tend to bookmark stuff which I do go back to :)

Re: Show HN: My new project - ask.io

#19
I clicked on FAQ hoping to learn a bit about how featured favors are selected, what principles inform the selection process (Christian charity as the Mother Theresa quote suggests, or something else?), and what level of vetting goes into it (e.g., in the current case, did you make some calls to find out whether the person really is ill?).

Needless to say, I came up short. I think I'm not the only one who'll want to know some of these details before bookmarking the site and returning on a weekly basis.

Re: Show HN: My new project - ask.io

#20
> My wife is not well and was recently hospitalized, but her birthday is coming up. I think it would make her happy to receive a lot of birthday cards. Could you please send her a birthday card?

Wait, so your wife is sick and you think a lot of cards from random strangers will cheer her up? In my experience, that's rarely how wives (or for that matter: husbands) work.

I'm all for random acts of kindness... not too sure about soliciting them.

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