Re:T Mobile Rated as 3rd most hated company in 2012
by bunderbunder on Thursday January 24, 2013 @11:57AM
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Add to it that the title misrepresents the nature of the article. This doesn't seem to be a list of the top ten most hated companies, as ranked by some metric. It's just a list of ten companies that did really poorly in 2012, in no apparent order.
So the fact that T-Mobile is the third item the list does not in any way imply that T-Mobile is somehow the "3rd most hated company".
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
currently say, "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." The original title of this article was "10 most-hated companies in America," which runs into another Hacker News guideline, "If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," which comes just before the general guideline to use the original title.
I'll also note for the record that I'm a reasonably satisfied long-term customer of T-Mobile. I started with predecessor company, Voicestream, back when it was the only GSM network in my town. I like to use GSM phones for international travel. I started using mobile phones when I lived in Taiwan. I'll have to agree that T-Mobile investors must be disappointed by T-Mobile's market share in the United States.