Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay?

Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by swombat on Monday June 08, 2009 @12:52PM (#647580)

As I understand it, "Ask HN" posts are supposed to be local, not on another site. But perhaps that was a white lie in your perspective?

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by kirubakaran on Monday June 08, 2009 @01:05PM (#647607)

"Ask HN" posts are supposed to be local

Why? What if you want to include a chart or a picture in your 'Ask HN' post?

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by swombat on Monday June 08, 2009 @01:31PM (#647639)

I guess it's a convention that comes with the fact that people (in many cases) look more kindly on "Ask HN" types of posts and upvote them more generously than external articles.

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by kirubakaran on Monday June 08, 2009 @01:52PM (#647684)

Looks like you taking your opinion and extrapolating it into "... the fact that people ...", then implying that hence it is immoral ("But perhaps that was a white lie") to ask a non-local 'Ask HN'! Or may be you are just being witty. If anything, local 'Ask HN' is discouraged here by displaying it as gray on gray text.

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by swombat on Monday June 08, 2009 @04:59PM (#647985)

You may well be right. I didn't mean to be offensive, nor did I mean to be witty. It was just an observation.

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by kirubakaran on Monday June 08, 2009 @05:18PM (#648020)

Oh okay. Sorry if that sounded argumentative. :-)

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Re:Ask HN: are soft lies in sales okay? by midnightmonster on Monday June 08, 2009 @01:39PM (#647656)

And this one, where the OP posed a vague question but made no attempt at providing a solution or even a tough example case, has little excuse, IMO.

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