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Comment by draven | Hacker News Reader

I don't know why you're downvoted, webrings are great, it's sort of a list of curated related content. I loved browsing those when they were more common.

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Ever since speaking up on one of the threads about encryption/terrorism my comments have been more or less structurally downvoted by one particular user (confirmed). I'm fine with that, it's not going to make me shut up, if they feel better about it then that's mostly their problem, not mine.

What did you say to get that kind of crazy reaction?

[NB Having been a web user since the very early days I had encountered web rings and had completely forgotten about them]

Take your pick.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10562679

You just made my morning.

How did you confirm? Speak to dang?

Yes.

Strange, I didn't see you saying anything particularly provocative in that thread you cited- though there were a lot of comments so maybe I missed one. Oh well, like you say if it makes that user feel better then no matter.

They're probably doing you more good than harm. Nothing attracts upvotes faster than an unwarranted negative score.

(shameless plug)

I totally agree, that was awesome to discover random websites. I think that there's still a place for webrings these days, so I'm creating the webring club. Feel free to subscribe on http://webring.club/ or shoot me an email (address in profile) if you're interested in exchanging ideas!

I got "Sorry, MailChimp couldn't validate your email. Try again?"

Thanks for the heads-up!

For some reason mailchimp was returning 403s from heroku, this must be related to this morning's outage. This is fixed and I added the emails that failed.

They are! But it's a rather off-topic top-level comment so I understand people downvoting it.

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