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~inquiry

Haven't used an ad blocker in ages. Can't remember why. Probably something about feeling cheating for having to make an effort to fix what had long been heralded as a sort of "second coming", i.e. the internet.

But I suppose it was just yet another case of greed ruining things. See also: for the love of monetize.

Somewhere along the line I played with text-only browsers (e.g. lynx, elinks), then raw web scraping. But, again, it started to feel like working for something that was quickly becoming worthless. Vague recollections of becoming weary of keeping up with html keyword augmentation.

I mean, doesn't it say (more like reiterate, really) something about the species that the meat (text) gets buried in gobs more times husk (keywords and syntax guardians) for appearances sake?

And from my point of view, for what? For me, what we've been doing here in this thread is what I've mostly wanted of the internet.

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~impulse wrote (thread):

I think I get what you're saying. We keep trying to make things look pretty, look presentable, completely ignoring the internal content that really matters.

I can think of plenty of examples: Celebrities that look pretty but are really not good people underneath, video games with intensely realistic graphics but terrible gameplay, those godawful cherries that Sonic gives you with their milkshakes that are just old rotten cherries loaded with sugar and food coloring... it goes on.

I can get trying to make things look presentable, maybe with a small bit of formatting here and there, but it ends up completely undermining the content inside that we're really there for.

Sorry for going on a bit of a rant, that last point you made just kinda stuck out to me. I agree with you.

Also to make sure, what do you mean by "See also: for the love of monetize."?