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By people who are not fans of Rap Genius, of which there are many. (I like the site, for what it's worth).


There have been some bad comments here for sure but the waste majority has been civilized and reasonable because ultimately black hat seo tears the fabric of web trust apart. Personally, I have nothing against RG but I do expect more from a YC startup.


Right, but this is a link to a piece of data. Calling it "emotive" is odd.


All data is emotive. All emotions stem from data.

When you look at the Mona Lisa or hear Sun by Koreless (IMO the most beautiful piece of music from 2013) you're processing data. It's just wave oscillations or light refraction.


No, data is not per-se emotive. You're confusing (amongst other things) the sub-set data that is aesthtetic, with the complet set of Data, and in vaguely more technical terms making an inference that is invalid.


If the data didn't stir some emotion, it wouldn't have been updated to the front page.


If the data didn't stir some [curiosity], it wouldn't have been updated to the front page.

=/=

If the data didn't stir some [shit], it wouldn't have been updated to the front page.


Oops, upvoted.

But yes, those are two possible emotive situations that this piece of data might stir.


Why was it disliked (prior to this incident)?


Maybe the Heroku trouble?

http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-money-trees-rap-genius-respo...


I don't think the product itself is disliked, just the founders.


There was a Gawker article a while ago that accused the very concept of the site of being racist.

Of course, you know, Gawker... not to be taken seriously.




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