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by chewxy 4814 days ago
Depends on the crowd. I wrote a blog post called Hackers and Engineers (the target audience is obviously the same people who read Hackers and Painters) [0]. From what I can see, lots of entries, lots of clicks on the links of the blog post, none on the share/tweet/facebook/g+ buttons.

By contrast, I see people clicking on the tweet/share/facebook button for the blog entry where I compared memes to speaking in metaphor ala Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra [1]. They don't click on the links (except to the book Wisdom Sits in Places)

Different crowds of people react differently to those share buttons, I guess. The HN crowd doesn't really click that much.

[0]http://blog.chewxy.com/2013/04/11/hackers-and-engineers/

[1]http://blog.chewxy.com/2013/02/22/darmok-and-jalad-at-tanagr...