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Re:In One Tweet, Kylie Jenner Wiped Out $1.3B of Snap's Mark... by noobermin on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:36PM (#16440049)
The issue here is assuming that the users of said sites are their customers. They are not.

When you are selling beef, do you worry about how the cows feel about it?

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Re:In One Tweet, Kylie Jenner Wiped Out $1.3B of Snap's Mark... by the-pigeon on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:51PM (#16440203)
You might not but you should.

If you don't care about the welfare of your cows they will not grow as large and you'll have less product to sell.

Putting that in more literal terms, if you damage the user experience you will damage user engagement and your ad revenue is going to fall.

There's certainly tricks to treat the cows poorly and still profit for a while but this sort of behavior has killed many companies.

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Re:In One Tweet, Kylie Jenner Wiped Out $1.3B of Snap's Mark... by Spooky23 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @04:30PM (#16441569)
Like I said, tech hubris. If you don't feed the cow, you won't be selling too much beef.

To use an animal aphorism used in the context of Wall St, "Bulls run, pigs get slaughtered."

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Re:In One Tweet, Kylie Jenner Wiped Out $1.3B of Snap's Mark... by _r_o_y_ on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:50PM (#16440194)
You do if it affects the way the beef sells.
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Re:In One Tweet, Kylie Jenner Wiped Out $1.3B of Snap's Mark... by noobermin on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:00PM (#16440325)
Right. Was going to add that ammendum, but didn't get around to it.

The point is users are ancillary, not the primary means of revenue. Whenever there is that mismatch, you'll have issues like this.

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