[saghm]

I've definitely heard of "goat" as a noun meaning that, but "webp is such a goated format" sounds more to me like the writer thinks people try to laud it as the goat when it actually isn't. I guess it's because it sounds like the passive voice; "is goated" makes it sound like someone else is doing the goat-ing, at which point for something subjective and desired like "goat", "goating" sounds like it's being used as a more modern slang for "astroturfing" or something.

[Dylan16807]

> I've definitely heard of "goat" as a noun meaning that, but "webp is such a goated format" sounds more to me like the writer thinks people try to laud it as the goat when it actually isn't.

Funnily enough the article kind of does that, doesn't it.

WebP is a decade older than "state of the art" for this, and that difference costs a significant number of bytes.