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'Polarizing' seems to be your code phrase to explain 'why we keep relentlessly trolling with this name, in the hope that all publicity is good publicity'.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2920777

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Actually I submitted it twice! :) I've never submitted a website to HN, so when I first did it, I was disappointed to see it plummet after about 5 minutes with no comments. So I tried again later in the day (which is the link you provided), and I received about a half dozen comments, many of them regarding the name. We've also submitted through feedbackarmy.com and have had similar negative comments about the name. So I figured I would ask HN what they thought. I'm sorry if you think I've done something wrong here.

I don't think you're gaming HN specifically. I just think you know perfectly well that the name isn't a good idea and are trying to milk the 'polarization' for a tiny bit of attention.

I mean, seriously? Dead Grandma? "Shock value", for a cooking site? I'm optimistically assuming that you're just playing dumb.

I guess I must be dumb. I've been a Forensic Scientist for the last decade, so morbid humor does nothing to me.

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