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Comment by dang

5 years ago

This is offtopic but I think people need to realize that BrandonM's comment has been unfairly characterized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229275

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sillysaurusx  5 years ago

While we're offtopic, I noticed that if you visit the original comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 both BrandonM and dhouston show up as green. I just wanted to say, it's really cool you keep adding little details like that to HN over the years.

(Maybe it's not new, but I hadn't noticed it before. It was a neat moment of "Wait... that's a feature, not a bug" followed by 2007 nostalgia.)

Thank you.

ignoramous  5 years ago

Agree but I want to clarify I put it as a reverse-BrandonM (aside from its notoriety) because BrandonM (and the rest of news.yc agreed with them by voting the comment to the top) at the time wrote:

'It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?'

dhouston did remember to thank BrandonM for their feedback, so that's there too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660140