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Re:Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Pla... by ben_jones on Friday August 05, 2016 @04:38PM (#12235593)
I'd prefer not to attribute to malice what could as easily be coincidence.

The biggest factor I see in the rankings of posts on various sites is the time of day in which it is posted and then directly related to that whether or not it received the critical mass early such that it can slingshot out of /new and start building an engaging discussion.

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Re:Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Pla... by sp527 on Friday August 05, 2016 @06:57PM (#12236243)
> I'd prefer not to attribute to malice what could as easily be coincidence.

Speaking as a former employee of another tech monolith specializing in marketing ploys, I can tell you unequivocally that this is a naive position to take.

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