There ought to be a word for this phenomenon where people follow a post that got them a lot of traffic from HN with another about how much traffic they got.
Let's call it Meturbation. Especially since it's metabaiting about (alleged) entreporneurship and all.
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what do you call this thread?
I think it is because people think HN traffic is "oh shiny.." compared to other link sharing sites. And then you go too far and get banned or hated by HN members.
This would actually be interesting if it showed long term effects. The posts only a few days after seem to come up every other day now, versus actually showing the long term effects. Are many bloggers consistently growing their user base over many months? If so would love to hear about how those stats actually looked from an long past HN front page article.