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chmars·

Sadly, the linked site is a classic case of 'tab closed, didn't read':

http://i.imgur.com/ZsZxfP3.png

I am of course referring to http://tabcloseddidntread.com/. http://crapshaming.tumblr.com/ would fit too.

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Someone should make a tumblr of HN comments about not reading submissions. It's not helpful; people are on this page to discuss the story, not why chmars didn't read it.

I couldn't read it … there was no way for me to remove the pop-up layer without being forward to another URL.

OK, technically, I could have gone all the way to access the original content. But why should I reward a website that does apparently not want to be read?

Thanks for your comment. In fact, you are not the first one complaining about that (another reader named it as 'user-hostile blog'), and I guess this is an invaluable insight for improving http://manycontacts.com

Discussions on HN are never strictly on topic. There are always lots of meta comments, and many very good comments I've read were only tangentially related to the submitted article. Instead of complaining what HN should and shouldn't be, try writing good comments, upvote good comments and downvote or ignore bad comments.

Also, if you read the article, you'll see that the author talks a lot about SEO and conversion optimisation, and chmars' comment fittingly points out how annoying it is when people go overboard with conversion optimisation.

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