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Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by wyc on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:40PM (#9952791)
Would love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by mettamage on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:20PM (#9952736)
I know a rhetorics teacher at my uni who will marvel at this idea! Seriously, for practical rhetoric teachers this site will provide a good segway into the rhetorics of excuses and to a lesser extent ethics.
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by christinang89 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:42PM (#9952797)
i actually noticed a lot of people downvoting "excuses" and decided to switch the positions of the vote up and down buttons. Previously, the vote up was on the left and down on the right. I'm curious to see if the votes will now swing the other way ;)
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by seba_dos1 on Monday July 27, 2015 @05:04AM (#9954127)
Probably not. I have "downvoted" bunch of them to just see the next one, until I realized that I'm really downvoting them.
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by selmo on Monday July 27, 2015 @10:06AM (#9955251)
I did the exact same thing...Now I feel bad because I down voted some awesome ones.
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by therobot24 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @07:39PM (#9952639)
i kept clicking and clicking, where's the payoff? it'd be nice to have a button to see a chart of most popular, least popular, etc
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by christinang89 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @07:52PM (#9952672)
that's a great point. i will be adding that in soon :) thanks!
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by christinang89 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:41PM (#9952793)
fwiw, i just added a badge next to each quote to show the points... hope to build a summary page soon :)
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by therobot24 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:57PM (#9952839)
i like it. simple and effective.
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by prawn on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:40PM (#9952788)
For anyone who doesn't recognise the term and is too lazy to click through, WFH = working from home.
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by stephenr on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @08:15AM (#9960879)
This is not the sort of thing that helps the Remote working movement in the slightest. If anything it reinforces the negative connotations management types already have about remote working.
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by ultrafez on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:03PM (#9952695)
This has to be the simplest React app I've seen yet :)

(not having a go - just made me chuckle!)

Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by christinang89 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:43PM (#9952802)
:) i had fun building it! slightly off tangent though, building it via flask backend was a pain. on hindsight, i'd probably have used node instead.
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by viraptor on Monday July 27, 2015 @12:08AM (#9953280)
Why was it a pain?
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by miralabs on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:50PM (#9952818)
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by phantom_oracle on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:47PM (#9952811)
I added mine but can't keep track of it.

If anyone sees 1 about office hygiene and taking a dump, please share the URL, as I think it is quite valid and would like to track its progress.

Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by christinang89 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @08:51PM (#9952819)
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by phantom_oracle on Sunday July 26, 2015 @09:00PM (#9952843)
you're a superstar!

Edit: Looks like I'm down to -1 now. I think either bots are randomly pressing buttons, your voting is rigged (or ran()dom) or my suggestion just sucked :)

Nice work building it though.

Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by christinang89 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @10:28PM (#9953058)
I did notice a few ips voting excessively. I don't think they are bots, probably just trolls. I should implement ip limits.

I had too much faith in the Internet - Evidently I'm wrong :p

Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by kdevrou on Monday July 27, 2015 @01:47PM (#9956778)
Giving visitors a vote button will shake your faith in the internet. Giving unregistered visitors a text field that doesn't require approval before being listed, that's just downright dangerous! :P
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by christinang89 on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:18PM (#9956971)
it actually requires approval before it is shown to others ;) making it seem like it was listed when u submit it is a "feel good" thing. of course, if users figure out the quoteid of the specific submission, it is still publicly available. its all in the name of fun :)
Re:Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Exc... by bencxr on Sunday July 26, 2015 @09:04PM (#9952859)
interesting to see how some of these have received huge numbers of downvotes.. e.g. this one: http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=7