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by codegeek 5048 days ago
"$300 million in cash "

Enough said.

2 comments

$300 million for a service that would've been lucky to make $100,000 annually in revenue.

1) Photo sharing => not profitable niche 2) Mobile app => hard to monetize

This.
What does "this" mean? I've people use it as a comment, and I also noticed others disliking it.
It's another way of "liking" the comment or voting it up. The user is essentially saying "I agree with this".

People sometimes flag such comments because:

1) The upvote mechanism was created for 'this' purpose.

2) These types of comments don't necessarily add much value to the threads and the community at large is very protective and self-governing in terms of maintaining the integrity of the site.

... Personally, I don't care. I'm sure I've 'this'd comments before in one form or another.

Thank you.