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Re:Plinky by rue on Saturday May 30, 2009 @11:09AM (#633712)
Since the submitter did not see necessary to add information about "plinky", my hesitant 5-second peek at the unknown URL reveals some type of weird poll/questionnaire site with probably some "social media" scheme.
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Re:Plinky by asnyder on Saturday May 30, 2009 @01:44PM (#633898)
To be fair Hacker News doesn't allow you to submit a link and write a description. Therefore, any description would have to be posted as a comment which in all likelihood would eventually trickle down to the bottom of the comments.

Submitting a url as he did is no different than a ASK HN: Review my startup.

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Re:Plinky by rue on Saturday May 30, 2009 @01:48PM (#633902)
Looking at the Submit page, there is a spot for the URL and another one for a title. I may certainly be mistaken as I have never used it, but I would think those two fields are just for the described purpose?
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Re:Plinky by asnyder on Saturday May 30, 2009 @03:54PM (#634039)
True, but the title is not meant to include a long description of the link, rather, just a title.
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Re:Plinky by mahmud on Saturday May 30, 2009 @06:16PM (#634147)
"Pling: a questionnaire site with some social media scheme" would have been fine as a title.
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