It's no longer shameful to work at Yahoo

Post by lsiebert » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 1:07 AM UTC

antrix wrote: post #8

lsiebert wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that you are wrong about the writing, but the writing on the article is on par with similar content churn based sites, which has more to say about the collective reader base than the writer, in my opinion. They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor. I turn off adblocking on long form well-written articles in order to support real writing for just this reason, thou…

> They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor. By the same logic, Yahoo employees shouldn't be ashamed either; they were just doing what management asked them to do!

Post by sbierwagen » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 1:14 AM UTC

bitops wrote: post #10

ckdarby wrote: post #6

How does this get on hacker news -_-

Enough people upvoted it for it to make the front page. If you don't think it's appropriate, flag it and move on.

Post by antrix » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 11:59 PM UTC

lsiebert wrote: post #11

antrix wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They shouldn't be ashamed, they are writing exactly what they were asked for by their editor. By the same logic, Yahoo employees shouldn't be ashamed either; they were just doing what management asked them to do!

If they ever were actually ashamed, in the first place.