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I don't know why you're downvoted, webrings are great, it's sort of a list of curated related content. I loved browsing those when they were more common.

by draven 11y ago

jacquesm 11y ago
Ever since speaking up on one of the threads about encryption/terrorism my comments have been more or less structurally downvoted by one particular user (confirmed). I'm fine with that, it's not going to make me shut up, if they feel better about it then that's mostly their problem, not mine.
- arethuza 11y ago
  What did you say to get that kind of crazy reaction? [NB Having been a web user since the very early days I had encountered web rings and had completely forgotten about them]
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    Take your pick. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562679
    - sageikosa 11y ago
      You just made my morning.
- smcl 11y ago
  How did you confirm? Speak to dang?
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    Yes.
    - smcl 11y ago
      Strange, I didn't see you saying anything particularly provocative in that thread you cited- though there were a lot of comments so maybe I missed one. Oh well, like you say if it makes that user feel better then no matter.
- bryanlarsen 11y ago
  They're probably doing you more good than harm. Nothing attracts upvotes faster than an unwarranted negative score.
emillon 11y ago
(shameless plug) I totally agree, that was awesome to discover random websites. I think that there's still a place for webrings these days, so I'm creating the webring club. Feel free to subscribe on http://webring.club/ http://webring.club/ or shoot me an email (address in profile) if you're interested in exchanging ideas!
- draven 11y ago
  I got "Sorry, MailChimp couldn't validate your email. Try again?"
  - emillon 11y ago
    Thanks for the heads-up! For some reason mailchimp was returning 403s from heroku, this must be related to this morning's outage. This is fixed and I added the emails that failed.
anc84 11y ago
They are! But it's a rather off-topic top-level comment so I understand people downvoting it.

I don't know why you're downvoted, webrings are great, it's sort of a list of curated related content. I loved browsing those when they were more common.

by draven 11y ago

I don't know why you're downvoted, webrings are great, it's sort of a list of curated related content. I loved browsing those when they were more common.

jacquesm 11y ago

Ever since speaking up on one of the threads about encryption/terrorism my comments have been more or less structurally downvoted by one particular user (confirmed). I'm fine with that, it's not going to make me shut up, if they feel better about it then that's mostly their problem, not mine.

arethuza 11y ago
What did you say to get that kind of crazy reaction? [NB Having been a web user since the very early days I had encountered web rings and had completely forgotten about them]
- jacquesm 11y ago
  Take your pick. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562679
  - sageikosa 11y ago
    You just made my morning.
smcl 11y ago
How did you confirm? Speak to dang?
- jacquesm 11y ago
  Yes.
  - smcl 11y ago
    Strange, I didn't see you saying anything particularly provocative in that thread you cited- though there were a lot of comments so maybe I missed one. Oh well, like you say if it makes that user feel better then no matter.
bryanlarsen 11y ago
They're probably doing you more good than harm. Nothing attracts upvotes faster than an unwarranted negative score.

emillon 11y ago

(shameless plug) I totally agree, that was awesome to discover random websites. I think that there's still a place for webrings these days, so I'm creating the webring club. Feel free to subscribe on http://webring.club/ http://webring.club/ or shoot me an email (address in profile) if you're interested in exchanging ideas!

draven 11y ago
I got "Sorry, MailChimp couldn't validate your email. Try again?"
- emillon 11y ago
  Thanks for the heads-up! For some reason mailchimp was returning 403s from heroku, this must be related to this morning's outage. This is fixed and I added the emails that failed.

anc84 11y ago

They are! But it's a rather off-topic top-level comment so I understand people downvoting it.