What's the point of like caps?

[dave_b]

Well I just came here to say it keeps your like head warm. But thats redundent at this point.

[adonai]

Too right, ya slags!

[miasm]

It’s comin’ ouuta me like a yellah cable!

[nemomen]

Late Stage Like Capitalism

[dave_b]

While we’re going down this route why 1 like per comment. Some comments might deserve more of my like allowance than others.

[wrecksdart]

Well, caps are, like, good for when it’s sunny and stuff. I mean, like, when it’s raining, too, and my hair is dry and I don’t wanna get wet and stuff, like, that’s the perfect time for a cap. Like, who doesn’t use caps? They’re, like, dumb. Right? Gawd, like, that’s a dumb question.

[nemomen]

What do you do when you find a space man?
You park, man.

[Woodchuck45]

Ooh, like a “best comment I’ve read all day” like? It could be activated by a double-heart click, and you only get one vote each day. And, more badges!

C’mon @codinghorror, you gotta do something with all that new postgres capacity on your hands…

[TooGoodToCheck_]

Like caps are a half-assed attempt to control Like inflation.

Vote for me, and I’ll tie Likes back to the gold standard

[Clifton]

Oh my god, he’s some kind of bohemian Free Like advocate! Alert the authorities!

[nemomen]

Likes should be like bitcoins, where you can mine one every time you divide by zero. I’d be like-rich.

[anon8420928]

@nemomeno

you can mine one every time you divide by zero

Is it that simple!?

I knew I was doing it wrong!

[nemomen]

Yeah you just pick a random integer between 0 and a very large prime ( for cryptographic security) then divide one by it and make a hash of the result when it crashes. You have to be really fast with that last part - that’s why they have custom ASICs now.

[anon8420928]

Thank you this has been so informative.

Where can I subscribe to your newsletter?

[Medievalist]

@nemomen

Is there some kind of like-spamming this is guarding against?

I’ve always assumed it’s because a command line could be written that would “like” everything ever posted, or everything posted by a particular person, pretty trivially. Just tcpdump a session while you are signing in and liking a couple posts, parse out the important parts, and slap something together with the gnu awk and netcat, or whatever tools you favor. Easy peasey.

[anon6955837]

Yes. Now we do.

[dave_b]

Just ask @OtherMichael.

[OtherMichael]

i dont know what you are talking about

_{no seriously its a bookmarklet}

[Medievalist]

I’m pretty sure he has the programming chops (don’t know about the packet mangling part) but I’m also pretty sure he doesn’t use a script. They don’t hit fast enough for that.