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also known as the 'double down on stupid' and 'triple down on stupid'




We recently had an example of that with Automattic and the WordPress drama. Where the founder was here on HN hurting his own legal case despite people here repeatedly told him to stop posting for his own sake and asking him to talk to his lawyers.

Seeing someone post here a screenshot of case filings that included a screenshot of that founder's HN comments thereafter was golden.

This is known as the “Randy Pitchford” social media strat.



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