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by Trill-I-Am 2649 days ago
n-gate?
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Don't violate the prime directive.
That’s quite the hate-on someone has at that site. There’s some funny to be had, but it’s mostly very tryhard. The “coverage” of the Vitamin D thing was great, but when there isn’t low hanging fruit it just sort of defaults to generic noise. Without the anger and repetition it could be worth reading, but as it is there’s a lot of predictable 4channery.
Have you considered the possibility that you might not be the target demographic?
What’s the target demographic, and what demographic do I represent?
I'm pretty sure I'm at least partially it. I like to check the site out every now and then to get a point of view from the other side. HN, although having a lot of high quality discussions, can sometimes be a deafeningly loud echo chamber, and getting a different perspective helps to, well, put things into perspective.
People in need of a chuckle?

I mean there's Poe's Law and then..

for me, it's stuck on the security check - or is this the joke?
I think it only does that when linked from this website.
ah, okay, it works now. I wondered about a broken captcha being the joke after seeing their about page: http://n-gate.com/about/