[latexr]

> it's intentional.

What is?

> I'm guessing it's testing our susceptibility to machine-generated compliments

I fail to see the point. For one, the compliments aren’t particularly good or interesting; for another, I didn’t even read them (I just went back to check after your comment), I simply clicked when seeing green.

[analog8374]

too many clicks per word. and the distance between click points. that's intentional.

well the point would be to see how susceptible you are to that. They're figuring out where your cost vs reward tipping point is.

[latexr]

I think you’re reading too much into it. I think it’s just a common design pattern that was copied and is clearly optimised for mobile, where the distance doesn’t matter that much.

Anyway, if they were running metrics on that they just became useless because I automated responding to it a bunch of times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598586#48600403

[philipwhiuk]

There's a small handful, mostly QI-inspired.