I don't think this is restricted to HN though. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit... they've all been venues where posts about corporate misbehaviour have gone viral and cost companies a lot of money. Maybe the scale is different on HN, but that's only because it's B2B rather than B2C.
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I think it's the density factor: decisionmakers and people who are one hop from decisionmakers concentrate there, and tastemakers (&tc) concentrate there, and therefore there is outsized leverage, in the same way Twitter storms leverage the traditional news media.
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Yup. A couple of HN stories on Google’s billing incompetence have removed any desire of mine to put critical information on their cloud
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You know what I take back what I said. I have no clue what this thread is about.
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Now I'm wondering whether getting treated badly enough makes shorting AmaGooSoft before posting to HN a viable strategy to (more than?) recoup the losses.
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For better or for worse
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