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Re: The .feedback scam

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Post by klodolph »

thecloud wrote: post #59
klodolph wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The German word for it is Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand, apparently.

In 22 years of living in germany, ive never once heard anyone use that atrocity of a word or anything close to it - I guess it's a joke-word from the tv series How I met your mother making fun of the fact that many complex german words are just glued together from other words, eg. Krankenhaus ("ill building" or "building for the ill"). This does not mean that every compound word you theoretically could form is actual…

Yes, truly an old recycled joke that was never that funny in the first place, kind of like !!11!!!!one!

Re: The .feedback scam

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Post by chanux »

dasil003 wrote: post #13

Reminds me of GetSatisfaction back in the day. It was never as much of an outright scam as this, but they definitely had that protection racket vibe about it.

Get satisfaction was a really bad place filled with dark patterns. Sad to see it still alive.

Re: The .feedback scam

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Post by lemagedurage »

A site that provides uncensored free speech aimed at companies is considered a huge scam? It looks like the comments are not manipulated, and I appreciate that authenticity more than practices happening around Google, YouTube, Facebook etc.

Re: The .feedback scam

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Post by nkoren »

thecloud wrote: post #59
klodolph wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The German word for it is Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand, apparently.

In 22 years of living in germany, ive never once heard anyone use that atrocity of a word or anything close to it - I guess it's a joke-word from the tv series How I met your mother making fun of the fact that many complex german words are just glued together from other words, eg. Krankenhaus ("ill building" or "building for the ill"). This does not mean that every compound word you theoretically could form is actual…

Here in the Anglosphere, any sufficiently compound word is indistinguishable from German. ;-)

Re: The .feedback scam

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Post by soneil »

losteric wrote: post #32
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #10

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The flipside of this is that if nobody visits .feedback domains, they won't be able to scam anyone. Users don't need to learn anything to avoid them, because they probably won't ever hear about them in the first place. If they have no audience, they can be safely ignored. No reason to pay $600/yr for hypotheticals. All I meant was, the moment someone brings up a .feedback domain or "Google's new feedback service," ju…

Let's hope they don't learn about this thing called "SEO"

I'm not sure how much that'll really help. It doesn't take too much imagination to think that perhaps Google's heuristics will rank this TLD poorly.

Trying to scam google over $600 feels like a poor strategy for a scam that depends on being discovered.

Re: The .feedback scam

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Post by speedplane »

GTLDs were introduced only a few years ago, but it's clear the implementers were conflicted by reckoning the freedom of the "earlier internet" with what the internet has become today. They wanted to honor the freedom of the DNS system. But they also recognized the internet has changed enormously. Today, the internet is largely ruled by large brands, just as most mainstream media is.

The GTLD system is a pretty poor compromise between those two positions. User's don't have freedom of the early DNS system, and brands now have a huge enforcement burden to mange. Registering sites like coca-cola.fun and coca-cola.shopping are almost certainly not allowed, and will be shut-down eventually, but it now costs Coke a sizable sum to monitor and take down the infringing websites.

Re: The .feedback scam

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Post by isolli »

thecloud wrote: post #59
klodolph wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The German word for it is Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand, apparently.

In 22 years of living in germany, ive never once heard anyone use that atrocity of a word or anything close to it - I guess it's a joke-word from the tv series How I met your mother making fun of the fact that many complex german words are just glued together from other words, eg. Krankenhaus ("ill building" or "building for the ill"). This does not mean that every compound word you theoretically could form is actual…

Isn't that true? After 2 years in Germany, it was my feeling that you could freely associate several words into one. I'll defer to your 22 years of expertise, obviously.

Re: The .feedback scam

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Post by skocznymroczny »

CPLX wrote: post #34
Stratoscope wrote: post #15

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Well, the reviews on stackoverflow.feedback are quite informative! Dan Manny says: Stack over flow made me loose money!!! Bad code with security wholes in it crashed my clients site!! Warning warning for scammers and Antonio B. of Indonesia says: Best site for solving programming issue!!!11!one! The most user and newbie friendly site! 11/10 would recommend You know you can trust reviews like this!

> !!!11!one! Is there a word for the feeling you get when you see 15+ year old idiot message board / forum / usenet catchphrases apparently still going strong? It's a curious mix of nostalgia and revulsion.

Everyone knows adults mix in cos(0) somewhere among the 1's
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