Re:Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for paral...
by dang on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:18PM
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I think HN would "see through a cheap ploy like that", as Monty Python once said about God.
People come here for interesting things to read. The point of the editing is to make the Launch HN texts interesting rather than annoying*. Adding disclaimers wouldn't make ad copy less annoying, so I doubt it would help. It's a clever idea though.
* though a lot of commenters are saying they're too long ("longwinded" and "bedtime story" are two terms sticking in my mind)...maybe we've been trying too hard.
People come here for interesting things to read. The point of the editing is to make the Launch HN texts interesting rather than annoying*. Adding disclaimers wouldn't make ad copy less annoying, so I doubt it would help. It's a clever idea though.
* though a lot of commenters are saying they're too long ("longwinded" and "bedtime story" are two terms sticking in my mind)...maybe we've been trying too hard.