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Re: The perfect email

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Post by shanelja » Wed, Nov 07, 2012, 1:46 PM UTC

GFischer wrote: post #39

shanelja wrote: post #34

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I don't understand why this was down-voted, the parent commenter clearly states that he is searching for employees and this comment states that he is interested in a job there.

Maybe the downvoter thinks he should have contacted the parent directly? Edit: It's now back to positive, but I think HN could be improved by giving more private ways to contact people - the obvious way would be Private Messages, but this got me thinking about whether replies visible only to the OP and other posters in the thread would be a good solution - and yes, I know HN could implement a lot of other features be…

I actually disagree, I think the public medium by which we can see every interaction is what makes this place so good, if you want to be needlessly bitchy, you need to do it in public where everyone else can see it.

It keeps us in check and thinking carefully about our comments and stops a lot of degradation of standards, with regards to quality of comments.

Re: The perfect email

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Post by namank » Wed, Nov 07, 2012, 4:45 PM UTC

asmosoinio wrote: post #37

GlennFarrant wrote: post #33

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The subject line was: "Real time location and status startup struggling with the Infrastructure vs Application decision" Also, on reviewing the email, there was some formatting which may have helped the readability and draw attention to the central question. There was a fair amount of whitespace between the paragraphs and the main question was center-aligned and in bold.

Sounds almost gimmicky, which it probably is not: Would you mind providing a screenshot of the email?

Not gimmicky, it's empathizing with the end user.

Re: The perfect email

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Post by GlennFarrant » Wed, Nov 07, 2012, 7:55 PM UTC

ilija139 wrote: post #38

GlennFarrant wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The subject line was: "Real time location and status startup struggling with the Infrastructure vs Application decision" Also, on reviewing the email, there was some formatting which may have helped the readability and draw attention to the central question. There was a fair amount of whitespace between the paragraphs and the main question was center-aligned and in bold.

Completely out of context, but I have visited your website http://www.criticalarc.com/ and I was very surprised to see this pixelate image on the home page http://www.criticalarc.com/_content/index/slider/2.jpg .

Thanks. We'll sort it out.