Why couldn't Chad (who posted this) just have written a little summary of the company below the link? Even better, he could have added it to the form. This would leave the potential beta testers out of confusion and wouldn't require useless comments like yours to have to be posted.
Is that so hard?
[edit: I'm getting downvoted for this. Why? Could someone please post a reason why jraines' comment was useful in anyway?]
sigh Fine, I'll bite. I posted that comment for the same reason you posted yours: to discourage a type of comment I consider useless. There's nothing lazier, especially in a forum for hackers, than "what is this and why should I care?!". IMO the right attitude is "wow, something I have never heard of is at the top HN? Awesome, let me take 30 effing seconds to learn about something new that my peers consider important or cool". Then, if you still have questions, ask away, to the benefit of the forum.
Thanks for writing back. I'm sorry if my comment came across as rude, as I really did not intend it to be that way. However, while I also did find mian2zi3's considerably useless, he probably speaks for a lot of people with the same question. lmgtfy is great for the most part. But in this case, the original poster of the link could have been a little more professional and saved the potential beta testers the time to look into why they would want to beta test for the site.
the original poster of the link could have been a little
more professional and saved the potential beta testers
the time to look into why they would want to beta test
for the site.
To be fair Chad was a bit rushed while submitting this; just running out the door to pick me up as we were cutting it close for a drive down to Mountain View to meet with pg.
