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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by jrockway on Monday February 13, 2012 @11:58AM (#3586270)
To be fair, this makes male hackers feel unwelcome too. I opened the page, thought "I'm not being caught with this open at work", and came here to deride the author. That's nice work, Lou...
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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by llimllib on Monday February 13, 2012 @12:41PM (#3586474)
I felt uncomfortable with it as a male hacker as well, though the story is actually interesting.

Either he's actually naïve enough not to know that he's being offensive or he's devious enough to be using it as troll bait.

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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by jrockway on Monday February 13, 2012 @12:48PM (#3586518)
What's the advantage of trolling in this form? All he's achieved are a few one-liner comments saying he's an idiot.

Victory?

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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by llimllib on Monday February 13, 2012 @02:08PM (#3586898)
"all publicity is good publicity".

Piss people off == more visits == more sales?

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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by kennywinker on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @04:19AM (#3589283)
piss people off == less links == less visits == less sales. clearly their is a fine line, but I think the best link baiters lead with a premise that is outrageous, and content that is pretty agreeable.
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Re:The story of the hardest platform game ever by Gotttzsche on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:15PM (#3587560)
i don't see what the problem is, to be honest
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