[user249]

Paraphrasing: "No one appreciates the hard work that went into my medium blog, which I hope to monetize at some point, and to top it off, anonymous people leave mean comments"

Are you new to the internet?

(the author doesn't read comments so I'm in no danger of offending him)

[wand3r]

Yeah, exactly how I felt. They say, “we all know writing a blog is hard, it can take at least an hour”

The quality of blogs varies wildly so this makes no sense. Gwern seems to take a long time to write their blog and do research. Sometimes a blog post is literally a teenagers stream of consciousness. Both are OK, but it really depends on the blog whether I consider writing it both 1) a lot of work 2) valuable to me.

I just found this tone offputting. It was peak wordcell behavior IMO.

[user249]

I had look up "wordcell" and found a fascinating definition that leads to "nerd traps", "abstraction ladder" and "theorycel" in regards to crypto

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wordcell

[OmarAssadi]

Incel terminology is so horrible to try and explain. But yeah, for anyone confused, basically any word can be affixed with -cel (from celibate) and it “works” — e.g., numbercel, wordcel, gymcel, heightcel, narutocel, ycombinatorcel, etc.

Typically these would’ve been used by the incel community to describe why someone is an incel (e.g., “heightcels” supposedly being too short to be attractive and so on). Now, I see the terms being used not only unironically by actual incels but also ironically, usually on the fairly leftist/chapotraphouse-adjacent parts of twitter and such.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkpqzb/ok-wtf-are-wordce...