Comment by minimaxir
6 years ago
> The $200M loss was a cheap way of getting user attention, but hey it worked!
Many Hacker News submissions get flagged to death for such tactics alone.
6 years ago
> The $200M loss was a cheap way of getting user attention, but hey it worked!
Many Hacker News submissions get flagged to death for such tactics alone.
True, but the ones where upvotes defeat flags in the tug-of-war stay afloat, and usually (well, sometimes at least) that's because there's some other substantive aspect to the article. In such cases we eventually notice the titles and change them to stick to the site guidelines—preferably using representative language from the article itself. I've attempted to do that above.
In this case the substantive aspect is at least partly that Garry has had a close relationship with HN over the years. And vice versa.
I feel they should be as well. If left unmonitored, this can lead to spammy / crappy experience. In this case the individual speaking is a well known and experienced figure who has a lot of insights to offer, hence I feel this made the cut.