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> Shakespeare only wrote 37 plays, Orson Wells only made 64 films, Mozart wrote 68 symphonies, but Disrupting Japan? Well, as of today, Disrupting Japan has 200
by braingenious 4y ago
> Shakespeare only wrote 37 plays, Orson Wells only made 64 films, Mozart wrote 68 symphonies, but Disrupting Japan? Well, as of today, Disrupting Japan has 200 episodes.
This is the most alarmingly stupid bit of text I’ve seen on this website in years. It’s wildly disconcerting that there exists some sort of apparatus that allows people to buy top ranking on the front page with utter garbage that clearly has zero value.
What’s the going rate?
- housingisaright 4y agoIsn’t it a joke?
- braingenious 4y agoIs it?
- Loocid 4y agoYes.
- asddubs 4y agoisn't it a joke?
- braingenious 4y agoIs it?
- asddubs 4y agoyes?
- braingenious 4y ago@dang I’d look into this. Edit: There are two accounts that are happy to publicly disagree with me within seconds of eachother, and three-six that are are happy to downvote privately within those same seconds. Maybe I’m magically guilty of having The Wrong Take or there are some people that will kneejerk use their network of accounts to downvote things that aren’t useful to their buddies.
- camtarn 4y agoNo ... it's really not a giant conspiracy. You're just guilty of being a jerk on a very public website which doesn't take kindly to jerks. I've downvoted all of your comments on this thread because they are completely unrelated to the subject of the article, and consist solely of a joke spectacularly flying over your head to the point where you're getting aggressive and throwing around conspiracy theories about downvoting rings.
- braingenious 4y agoIt’s not huge, it’s just a couple people. (I think, they won’t answer basic questions about posting within a second of one another.)
- camtarn 4y agoHonestly, I normally wouldn't answer a question that sounds like an invitation to an increasingly bizarre thread with a paranoid person either. I'll be dipping out of this conversation after this reply.
- braingenious 4y agoI am glad that you’re not involved in this chat! I wish you well and encourage you to look into the facts I’ve brought up.
- asddubs 4y agoI had written a sarcastic response, but I'll be nice instead. Don't you think two people could independently see that you missed a joke and come up with the very generically phrased response of "isn't it a joke?" to point this out? I mean it's four words. It's certainly a more plausible explanation than being some sort of grand conspiracy involving sockpuppet accounts.
- barry-cotter 4y agoIt’s a joke you humourless person. Now to upvote this story purely to spite you and people like you.
- braingenious 4y agoI love humor! Can you give a short (5-10 word) explanation of how this is funny enough to make it to number one on this website? edit: bonus points if you can explain two posts with identical responses within seconds of eachother https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321579 edit: with identical responses to mine, seconds apart.
- Loocid 4y agoIt's funny because it's an absurd comparison. It's not at the top of HN because of that specific joke.
- braingenious 4y agoSo no.
- Loocid 4y agoWhat?
- braingenious 4y agoWhat was the question I asked
- Loocid 4y agoTell me why I should give a shit about your arbitrary word limit in exactly 1424 words please.