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HN's obsession for trap locations is starting to become uncanny. I'm not going to complain about it, though - no matter how obscure and niche it is, I gotta ag
by pierrec 11y ago
HN's obsession for trap locations is starting to become uncanny.
I'm not going to complain about it, though - no matter how obscure and niche it is, I gotta agree that it remains an interesting topic. How far can we push the obsession? Surprise me!
- ibmthrowaway271 11y agoIt's a common topic posted by people looking for a big boost of karma. 1. Find the most popular topics (by points) in HN 2. Manually filter out 'event' topics (e.g. product releases, time specific news items, etc) that won't work when reposted 3. Wait until a topic hasn't been raised for a while and post a unique URL (either a related URL that hasn't been posted as a topic but maybe appeared in the discussion, or an existing URL that is made unique) 4. Hope for big boost of karma Which is why we often see many of the same old subjects being brought up again and again. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I'm sure that some are being posted by people trying to get their karma scores up. Reminds me, where's that list of pg's essays...
- gknoy 11y agohttp://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html ;)
- uptown 11y agoSurely there's a bit more life left in the topic. Perhaps a self-driving car that's led astray by referencing bad trap-street maps?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIt's a trap topic. Anyone submitting it gets flagged as karma-seeker. Anyone whining about it in comments also gets flagged in the system. What the moderators do with that data is classified.
- DanBC 11y ago...and it's not just trap locations for maps, but trap tracings on circuit diagrams or trap gates in ICs.