Yes, I consider the site to be a little disingenuous. I actually did a disingenuous thing myself, and watched the site owner queue up posts one time at a conference, and it was a mad dash of anything interesting and about 100 tabs stacked, popped, and restacked.
Now, it could be a cool site with links, but the astounding overhead of all of the JS and crud that comes with the site, and the dubious opportunistic way in which it operates is pretty tough for me.
There are some ties to people like Jer Thorp who also manages to somehow mention his own Twitter handle in tweets as if it might get lost out there that he indeed tweeted whatever it was, anyway, it gets very tedious to watch the the rolling wave of new people that get suckered in to the scheme. Some seem to pick up on what is going on and move on eventually.
I wish I could articulate better ways to call out these kinds of abuses but they're so subtle, and the echo chamber so new to the thing themselves, that it is hard to get the message through.
Now, it could be a cool site with links, but the astounding overhead of all of the JS and crud that comes with the site, and the dubious opportunistic way in which it operates is pretty tough for me.
There are some ties to people like Jer Thorp who also manages to somehow mention his own Twitter handle in tweets as if it might get lost out there that he indeed tweeted whatever it was, anyway, it gets very tedious to watch the the rolling wave of new people that get suckered in to the scheme. Some seem to pick up on what is going on and move on eventually.
I wish I could articulate better ways to call out these kinds of abuses but they're so subtle, and the echo chamber so new to the thing themselves, that it is hard to get the message through.