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Making Strange
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Making Strange is a personal blog at makingstrange.net about culture and writing. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Update: Amazon Seller Ratings Are Trustworthy”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on whether Amazon seller ratings can be trusted, including a follow-up after Amazon responded to the original investigation. Comments mostly report the follow-up rather than praise the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Making Strange is an expression used (at least in Canada) to describe the stage most babies go through where they begin to fear strangers and unfamilliar things. It can be described as that moment when they realise they as 'other' and not just an extension of someone else. Recently, I moved to anoth
Most-linked posts?
- Update: Amazon Seller Ratings Are Trustworthy2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-03-16
What Hacker News says?
There's now a followup blog post at http://www.makingstrange.net/2010/03/update-are-amazon-selle... . Amazon contacted her and offered the usual story (it was an inexperienced employee, various people screwed up, the issues involved have been escalated), and she's giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Comment linking /2010/03/update-are-amazon-seller-ratings.html
on “Are Amazon Seller Ratings Trustworthy?”Submitted Are Amazon Seller Ratings Trustworthy? as a story · 49 points
HN discussion"That pretty much means that most Amazon ratings are bullshit." That is an insane overreaction. Amazon has a long-standing reputation of excellent customer service over millions of transactions. A singular error on their part should be examined in that context. You'll find that their response invalidates your claim: http://www.makingstrange.net/2010/03/update-are-amazon-selle...
Comment linking /2010/03/update-are-amazon-seller-ratings.html
on “Are Amazon Seller Ratings Trustworthy?”Submitted Update: Amazon Seller Ratings Are Trustworthy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Etymology of Nerd and Geek ... and a Little Love as a story · 1 points
HN discussion