Hacker News Reader

I honestly don't get who upvotes articles like this one. Company supporters? Bots?

I mean, this is front page for several hours now and it's embarrassingly low quality. The only reason it triggered a conversation is because it's highly inconsistent.

View on HN

I'd hazard a guess that most HN readers are early adopters. This is a perspective from the opposite. If you're making a software product there's a very good chance that 20-60% of your user base is going to come from these self-identified "low end" users. I didn't upvote the OP, but it's valuable to surface this kind of perspective occasionally, if for no reason other than to remind us that the people that consume readers' services may be coming from a different perspective than we do.

Sometimes I favorite threads about bad articles because the threads themselves contain good discussion. I suspect that at least some proportion of undeserved upvotes comes from people favorite-ing the thread without thinking or bothering to unvote.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com