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Re:Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (2017) by gruez on Sunday January 27, 2019 @11:22PM (#19015305)
Can anyone explain why this comment is being downvoted? Is it a matter of "yeah but Amazon does it too/is worse"?
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Re:Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (2017) by tomhoward on Monday January 28, 2019 @07:34AM (#19016957)
Perhaps because it includes multiple breaches of this line in the HN guidelines:

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

There may be a case for introducing information like this when a company is recommended, but the comment would need to be worded with more civility than that one was.

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Re:Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (2017) by FiveSquared on Monday January 28, 2019 @12:23PM (#19019191)
Oh sorry, I just wanted to inform people. I will try better next time!
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Re:Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (2017) by Mikhail_Edoshin on Monday January 28, 2019 @03:22AM (#19015962)
The story is very likely untruthful.
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