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Out of idle curiosity, what is this doing here?
by qubex 9y ago
Out of idle curiosity, what is this doing here?
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoIt's for those who are idle and curious?
- nwatson 9y agoGuy takes a flyer on a horse that already shows some promise and his bet comes out well. His monopoly on winning is so strong he has to pivot to an alternate strategy to profit even more from his horse. Colorful VC that didn't come to it by conventional means. Interesting setting and societal matrix.
- frozenport 9y agoPerhaps the mods are asleep and somebody is trying to post ponies?
- falsedan 9y agoStrong clickbait game from Atlas Obscura
- imron 9y agoI've certainly noticed that recently there seems to have been an increase in the number of 'less relevant than I'd expect' Atlas Obscura articles regularly making the front page. A quick look at the submission details though doesn't reveal any sort of sustained pattern - either of posters or timings between submissions.
- falsedan 9y agoYeah, I didn't say it was a systemic spamming problem; the submissions are completely organic due to their strong clickbait game: Atlas Obscura specialises in the long-form, superficially-interesting but ultimately-pointless articles that give infovores enough of a hit to make them think, hey I learned something that not many other people know, I should share it. And yeah, you do end up learning about (say) the underground town of opal miners at Coober Pedy… but not to any more depth than someone who read the Wikipedia article (who also avoided creating ad impressions).