I misread the title. I was really hoping this was a link to house-rules on playing the Pandemic cooperative boardgame with the COVID-19 coronavirus as the disease.
Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign
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Re: Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign
#12A one post fake blog about absolutely nothing[0], knocked-up five minutes ago, on a garbage domain extension registered a few weeks ago, exploiting the clickiest topic of the day and posted to HN. Who's the coronavirus spammer here, exactly?
[0] The only issue after wasting my time reading most of the post is that it was, according to the author, spam (UCE). Otherwise it's no more remarkable than any other affiliate marketed ebook trash that aren't worthy of blog posts.
To fill the article the author complains that the book simply gives "trivial" tips; but if the tips are good advice ("proper handwashing techniques") or at least not harmful, so what? Maybe there are people who don't trust the Federal Government or UN or WHO or CNN but take advice from the kind of thing you might find advertised on alexjones.com.
The rest of the article is just about the ways companies hide who they are and use fake office addresses. Again, so what? It's not something I particularly support or agree with but it's commonplace, not a secret and seemingly not illegal.
I was struggling to see why this was written, other than it's related to the topic of the century, until I noticed it was a fake site with only one post and that is the only reason it was written.
Re: Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign
#13A one post fake blog about absolutely nothing[0], knocked-up five minutes ago, on a garbage domain extension registered a few weeks ago, exploiting the clickiest topic of the day and posted to HN. Who's the coronavirus spammer here, exactly? [0] The only issue after wasting my time reading most of the post is that it was, according to the author, spam (UCE). Otherwise it's no more remarkable than any other affiliate…
I suspect the idea was to expose them, hurt their business, and maybe turn the eyes of the law in their direction. I don't see anything that would bring about the level of anger you express unless you're tied to their profits. Are you?
Re: Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign
#14I read the article to the end and was half expecting the answer to be "Alex Jones". Hopefully he doesn't reappear so easily after being banned from so many platforms!
I know ... could have easily been something he was selling. (Looks like a few Alex Jones fans here. Hi to you too.)
Re: Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign
#15A one post fake blog about absolutely nothing[0], knocked-up five minutes ago, on a garbage domain extension registered a few weeks ago, exploiting the clickiest topic of the day and posted to HN. Who's the coronavirus spammer here, exactly? [0] The only issue after wasting my time reading most of the post is that it was, according to the author, spam (UCE). Otherwise it's no more remarkable than any other affiliate…
I suspect the idea was to expose them, hurt their business, and maybe turn the eyes of the law in their direction. I don't see anything that would bring about the level of anger you express unless you're tied to their profits. Are you?
Are you selling a potentially illegal pandemic ebook and hoping to profit from a competitor being taken down?
Baseless paranoid accusations are easy, and completely missing the point of a post - annoyance at low-effort junk posted to HN by site owners for the purpose of leeching page rank - isn't an excuse for resorting to them.
Re: Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign
#16I misread the title. I was really hoping this was a link to house-rules on playing the Pandemic cooperative boardgame with the COVID-19 coronavirus as the disease.
Using a mix of Legacy and Expansion Pack rules: Sharpie the name COVID-19 onto the game board for your least favorite color. Every outbreak of that color is now doubled (as if it had been drawn twice from your deck). It's up to your group if you want that to also effect overall difficulty (if those double outbreaks count as double towards the game's lose condition counter).
Re: Who is running the Pandemic Survival fear-mongering spam campaign
#17I read the article to the end and was half expecting the answer to be "Alex Jones". Hopefully he doesn't reappear so easily after being banned from so many platforms!
I know ... could have easily been something he was selling. (Looks like a few Alex Jones fans here. Hi to you too.)
I'm not here to gain karma ... and I'm willing to have a discussion with Alex Jones fans too so long as they stick to facts and avoid hyperbole, mis-truths, etc.