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Original poster of the thread here. Doesn't appear to be negative anymore, but here is what it looked like: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260512-0652 Screenshot was taken at 06:50 UTC.
Not at all related, but I love your work! Your photographs betray a subtle, curious, particular, and respectful eye. Keep shooting!
>Looks like we have a race condition that someone triggered by using a script to rapidly upvote and then unvote the submission. I'm not sure whether to be grateful or pissed. Perhaps I'll settle on grateful once I've fixed it.
>In the meantime, please don't anybody else do this!
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Not at all related, but I love your work! Your photographs betray a subtle, curious, particular, and respectful eye. Keep shooting!
Thanks. That is really nice of you to say.
(I like the style, too. It's good to see Helvetica get a deserved reevaluation, now that the millennial generation is aging out of even being able to imagine we are cool. Or ever were.)
My own profile on this website may help elucidate my perspective on the matter. I'm both shadowbanned and have applied a hundred-year "noprocrast" countdown, and it's frankly embarrassing how little that actually does to get the website not to accept those few contributions I still care to make.
It is as if the folks who run this place were getting a little desperate! - both for the "crowdsourced" unpaid work that goes into making this website worthy of interest, and for the last dwindling taste of what was once termed the "hacker spirit" by fringey weirdo ideologues like Stallman and Barlow.
(The idea that HTTP GET requests must be idempotent for safety, for example, has totally passed by this site's implementors and maintainers, or maybe never made a dent. Hence the subject of this very thread!)
In any case I regret the misplaced comment, and apologize for the dismay it likely caused. This website is embarrassing, and has just about run its course. Yours is not embarrassing at all, and I hope you're just getting started!
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You needn't; I just did. Mr. Gackle isn't really all that frightening, you know. There's no need to fear talking with him.
In fact he's the opposite of frightening.
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In fact he's the opposite of frightening.
True, but it's rude to call that out, not to mention rather more arrogant than wise. These are trepidatory times, and like many, his job is not at all secure. In his shoes I'd be frightened too, and he displays reasonable grace in spite of it; I have done less well at times.
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True, but it's rude to call that out, not to mention rather more arrogant than wise. These are trepidatory times, and like many, his job is not at all secure. In his shoes I'd be frightened too, and he displays reasonable grace in spite of it; I have done less well at times.
First time something I've posted here has been characterized as rude; I will try to do better in the future.
On that note please excuse my use of a shared account, as I finish wrapping up my affairs on this benighted website; Mr. Gackle has proven after all very inclined to behave in a precipitous and spiteful manner, and not nearly so evenhanded as I had previously seen cause to confide.
Assuming this comment survives to be read, I would counsel those continuing to use this website to conduct themselves accordingly and with all due care. Not my kind of problem any more, thank God: I work in a grocery store these days. Imagine that! It's like a gym membership that pays me.