a very strange side of the internet
there was some kind of blockchain question in the "hot network questions" section on stackexchange and we clicked it out of morbid curiosity
it's a really, really weird place
the highest voted answer was someone saying in a really stilted professional-email sort of register (not the sort of thing you see from someone learning the language, the sort of thing you see from someone who has never talked in an informal register in their life) "hi, thanks for asking, my name is X, i'm the creator of Y, a thing that does what you're asking about" and then proceeds to just shill Y
several other--highly rated!--answers are other people shilling Y and other things
when we do stuff on stackexchange it's usually on the electrical engineering one for obvious reasons and over there, anyone shilling anything as an answer gets their answer deleted in very short order
-F/R
re: a very strange side of the internet
@packbat what wsa also weird is that it was a lot more upvotes than anything but the really good and insightful answers get on EE.SE, most answers get 1 or 2
this one had 8
-F
re: a very strange side of the internet
@Felthry the sense we get is that blockchain Internet doesn't have anything /but/ shilling, so, not surprised that they'd react this way
I wonder how many of those upvotes are real versus bots run by the people shilling Y
- 🎒