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by PeterGriffin 4356 days ago
A bit of a lost opportunity, because I've barely heard about Pinboard, and the fact of them celebrating the passage of time since they were found, is extremely trivial. BTW, MySpace recently turned eleven.

When writing posts and news, typically you want the headline to focus on a new feature, a new app, or if it'll be a number, focus on a meaningful number, like number of users, something that could engage those who aren't engaged right now.

Way it is, a birthday party of some company I know little about is someone else's party, and I won't even open the article.
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rfrey 4356 days ago
a birthday party of some company I know little about is someone else's party

Most of the value I get from HN, and social websites in general, is from people surfacing things I didn't know about.

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PeterGriffin 4356 days ago
You have totally missed the point of my post, and I guess most of those that modded it.

EDIT: Ok this is starting to get a little weird. What's with the comical negative overreaction to my posts. What exactly did I say to warrant that?

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jarek 4356 days ago
> What exactly did I say to warrant that?

Ironically, you have missed the point of the blog post. It wasn't written to market the service, nor to engage those who aren't engaged right now. Your comment sounds like it was written by a marketoid or a growth hacker.

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PeterGriffin 4356 days ago
Oh I see, Pinboard is so innocent, so pure, that a honest tip about how to reach more people who can find their service useful should be modded into the ground.

I've tainted the Jesus of bookmarks by even implicitly suggesting in my post that they might be writing with the intention to be read. No, I suppose their intention is way more cosmic and godly than such low earthly concerns, how stupid of me.

Aight, aight. I never stop learning when I'm here on HN.

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idlewords 4356 days ago
Your advice on how to write more persuasively got downmodded into oblivion, and you believe that most people here missed the point of your post (which was about effective communication).

What does this tell you?

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lemming 4356 days ago
That's your loss, in this case.
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