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b_b  ·  3955 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski PSA: user-specific search is the best Hubski search

Yeah, I don't regret it. I try to be a supporter of the arts, so I'm always willing to spend a trivial amount to help out a struggling artist. And I think it was only $3. The fact that it wasn't good (objectively speaking; not just that it didn't fit my taste) is inconsequential to me. I just don't like being called an univiting, sexist pig, with a shitty website after probably 100% of downloads that she got that weren't from family and friends were directly from this sexist hellscape. It was one of those things that's so bizarre that all you could do was laugh.





humanodon  ·  3954 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a good attitude to have. The situation kind of reminds me of a girl I knew in high school who would make and sell those hemp necklaces that everyone was wearing while playing hacky-sack in the '90's. Anyway, one day she wasn't selling many I guess, so she came up to me at my desk and tied it on me with some kind of knot that she couldn't undo. Guess who bought a necklace that day?

The whole self-publishing thing is good in theory, but this isn't the first instance I've seen of people playing dramatic to get people to buy their stuff. There has to be a better way to go about it . . .