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Re:Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch by politician on Thursday November 29, 2012 @10:47AM (#4848299)
Seconded. Initially, my brain told me that +ve was the name of the site, so I was confused when I looked for a product page link only saw "Cucumbertown".

Granted, that's mostly laziness -- apparently I've got a rule that matches "strange words near the top of the post" to "probably the name of the product".

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Re:Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch by chacham15 on Thursday November 29, 2012 @10:50AM (#4848325)
I dont know about anyone else, but when I saw "+ve", I just thought to myself, "what is that?" for about a half a second before giving up and moving on.
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Re:Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch by rolleiflex on Thursday November 29, 2012 @06:46PM (#4851012)
It doesn't even parse for me. If "+ve" means "Positive", what does "+" mean? Positi?

Regardless of what you do, a little bit of respect for English is always a good thing to have.

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