To what end? Fake internet points just for the high score?
Or are these future scammer accounts building credibility?
I just don't understand ragebait, seems like a waste of everyone (including OPs) time, with no tangible reward.
This. There's a whole market for high-karma old Reddit accounts. If it has a comment history that makes it look like a real person is behind it, even better.
Buyers are usually companies looking to astroturf their product/service, or scammers.
Google "buy reddit account" and see how many results there are.
First it's a great way to practice your story writing. Instant feedback, and a way to measure impact.
Second, it's to create fake accounts with real post histories so that they can be sold. There is a lot of strategies and work behind this approach.
Sold accounts then look "real", so when real people endorse product X on r/buyitforlife or AskReddit threads about "what product's quality has gone down?" it looks like actual people and not a targeted marketing effort.
Long stories also make for good consensus building by hammering points that are relevant to socio-political discussions. Like when the Woke was riding high during 2016-2018 there would be constant discussions in r/relationships, AskReddit, TwoXChromosomes, etc. about abuse, to keep people constantly talking and thinking about gender issues.
You can also create "tailing" or "follow-on" accounts that post replies to the obviously BS stories, including those that post "lol what a load of BS", as that builds their history, too, and you can steer opinion by having a few of those supporting shillbots make outrageous claims for (or against) the story, and then disprove them in ways that leads the audience into intellectual positions that the posters want.
It's nice to have my opinion, suggestions, thoughts, etc validated with upvotes.
I'm not sure I'd get the same effect from a totally fabricated story. But that's just me...
I discovered the channel Inheritance Machining a few weeks ago.
This guy inherited his grandfathers machine shop, in various states of disarray, and has been learning how to get it all working and doing some projects. Well filmed and entertaining.
Anyone know something similar to this, but with help generating a web front end?
I'd love to generate a small UI for my team to help with openssl commands, being able to input data would be a bonus.
I could probably cook something up with node fairly fast, but I'm a remedial programmer.
Maybe, but casually throwing out an accusation like this without supporting evidence is reckless at best. I would downvote this comment if I could.
Update: Found this old HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16726998 with vague recollections of certain encounters on the bug tracker. My takeaway is the maintainer(s) didn't put too much effort into understanding some bug reports (not good but doesn't deserve the "abusive" label) and was perceived as rude (which in my experience could sometimes be attributed to lack of tact from non-native speakers). So, hard to conclusively tell without more concrete evidence.
I can back this up. It's well-known that Fox is not a nice person. See [0] for previous discussion, or just browse around the old TT-RSS forums (warning: some mildly NSFW stuff there).
edit: Regarding your edit, no, it isn't a language barrier. He's quick to insult people and treats feedback/contributions as opportunities to feel superior or meme (e.g., [1]). It's like talking to 4chan.
I've already noticed issues in my inner ring suburb. During the business day, my 200Mb Charter cable connection is only pulling 20-50Mb. I've never had capacity issues in the last 10 years.
