51–56 of 56 posts
A bit of meta-commenting but the "Welcome HN" banner which encourages us to upvote the story put me right off. I'll vote it up if I like it, not because you customized your site to "Welcome" me because I read HN.
It's safe to bet that among the early adopters of a version control data mining tool there are overwhelmingly more males than females. Probably the poster feels that using she will somehow compensate this inbalance. I see the he/she problem as a bug of English, but using she in all technical text where a he would be more probable is just fake.
Love this post. This has been our standard marketing tack for years, and was a real conflict early in the company. How are we doing? Check out: http://runplaybook.com Do we sound like VC-funded 6-person-marcom team boring jerks, or just the real jerks we actually are?
The rest of the site made me confident in your technical abilities but not the longevity of the company. The pricing made me feel more comfortable that you would be around for a while yet.
Why does hitting take me to a login page? That was odd.
A bit of meta-commenting but the "Welcome HN" banner which encourages us to upvote the story put me right off. I'll vote it up if I like it, not because you customized your site to "Welcome" me because I read HN.
I've removed that special banner. You're right, HN folks know to upvote if they like it, of course, and it's insulting to say otherwise.
In my defense, it's true that I'm an HM reader and it's true that I appreciate the upvotes. :-) But you're right.
Thanks!
A bit of meta-commenting but the "Welcome HN" banner which encourages us to upvote the story put me right off. I'll vote it up if I like it, not because you customized your site to "Welcome" me because I read HN.
For every 100 people who read HN, my guess is that 10 upvote stories and 1 comments. I bet that more than half of regular HN readers don't even know that the site is powered by voting despite the little arrows next to each story. If people knew to upvote stories they liked on their own then the average story would have something like 800 upvotes. I agree with what you're saying because if everyone did this it would b…
Sometimes you simply do not like a story, article, linkpassing nearly enough to actually be thinking: "Hey, this was so interesting, that I am going to tell a really good friend about it - so he/she could enjoy it aswell!".
You bet half of the regular Hacker News readership does not know the frontpage is powered by voting.
I bet most of the fellow users have fairly or very high standards. Especially since there's so much quality content.
Just my two minutes of thinking and other eight minutes of editorial process. Cheers fellow reader.