- (2021)
Largely geared toward gaming for prominent front page exposure; since authored five years of adaption to ever evolving gaming strategies has occurred.
Could use a tomhow paragraph, The "Squeaky Beach" of HN moderators perhaps?
* https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/news/squeaky-beach-in-wils...
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- I didn't know emoji now worked in HN, they're usually stripped. I just tried now and sure enough it was stripped. How did you get that emoji to render?
- This one is special. You can use it too.
- ⌚ Wow that's cool! I wonder why it's exempted.
- Hacker News readers are very protective of the site... reacted negatively... to... stories that... weren’t of high-enough quality to otherwise be credible candidates for the front page... HN users have an intense emotional relationship with the front page... people’s relationship with HN is surprisingly personal
In my case, that observation is bang on.
Caught in a web overgrown with ads, infested with cookie popups, impaired by erratically deferred layouts lost in excessive whitespace, with signal drowning out in a coagulation of low-effort, generated slop; Sprouting walls of every kind, from paywalls, to login walls; even flared walls verifying you're of the human persuasion Walls that funnel toward infinite scroll traps devoid of true substance yet ruthlessly honed to siphon all the personal and behavioral data Bound by Terms of Use amounting to forced consent extracted absent meaningful agency, Where it's clear the very last thing the jackasses running the place give a damn about is that ultimate jewel: their User In that horrible, post-apocalyptic hell to which my beloved internet has largely succumbed... I find in this here nook something of an oasis A respite still prizing quality of content A haven where craftmanship counts A community of colleagues whose expertise complements and fills in the gaps of my own And, most crucially, a venue where that priceless commodity known as my attention is still generally respected and treated with value