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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by mortehu on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:31PM (#23932504)
Slashdot.org was plagued by people posting "first post" to every story, so they implemented an automatic "first post" comment to each article, that was removed as soon as other comments appeared. Maybe this comment ("Google will shut this down like so many other products") should be similarly posted automatically to Hacker News on every Google story?
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by bdcravens on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:15PM (#23933133)
Could add the same logic for the inevitable "self host it" when Github is down, or the "but we did it first!" comment from Gitlab whenever Github announces a feature.
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by asdfk-12 on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:44PM (#23932647)
Perhaps this listing service would get more goodwill from users and business if they were to pay sellers a commission when a listed item sells. Google's extractive (no, it's actually not 'free') business model has become quite tiresome, and they seem to have wasted their first-mover advantage over the past decade.
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by heavyset_go on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:35PM (#23932554)
It's ironic how my least favorite genre of posts are posts that complain about other posts.
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by dmurray on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:11PM (#23933066)
HN could also offer you the option to hide the automatic "Google will shut this down" post, and all its replies.
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by sirlatrom on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:34PM (#23933413)
Woooosh ;)
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by organian on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:32PM (#23933387)
It's ironic how my least favorite genre of comments are about people discussing the correct usage of the word "ironic".
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Re:Buy on Google is now open and commission-free by jjcon on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:00PM (#23932899)
Alternatively Google could just grow a spine and stop reinventing the same app year after year. The worst part is that they go all pikachu face when people react with wtf.
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