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daspion
on June 16, 2012
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Pay $100.000 if you link to Saygent's website
Maybe I haven't had my coffee yet, but why wouldn't they want people to link to their site? That's the point of the Web.
SnaKeZ
on June 16, 2012
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inverse psychology? I don't know...
pjin
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While it could be reverse psychology to troll HNers to linking their site, it's also bad publicity among hackers, and the argument breaks Occam's razor.
daimyoyo
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I believe Hanlon's razor more closely explains this site's actions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor
nmridul
on June 16, 2012
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After some time, no one will remeber and this would have bought them the required buzz.. At the end, any publicity is good publicity.
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