In some ways, I see patio11 as the Sarah Palin of HN (in PR tactics, not brains).
Formula: show up, comment on everything to improve your personal brand, bend every conversation to your personal narrative, speak very authoritatively with flowery down-to-earth gosh darn folksy language, and stay sufficiently out of the way so you can't be harshly judged (half term gov = "microisv").
My opinion about this is proof in itself it works. I just get annoyed realizing other people have programmed my brain without my express consent.
Formula: show up, comment on everything to improve your personal brand, bend every conversation to your personal narrative, speak very authoritatively with flowery down-to-earth gosh darn folksy language, and stay sufficiently out of the way so you can't be harshly judged (half term gov = "microisv").
My opinion about this is proof in itself it works. I just get annoyed realizing other people have programmed my brain without my express consent.