I swear this spam rants are driving me nuts lately.

Yeah, they're absolutely extreme today! Now i have two accounts at the moment - I see that the upvotes are different on both. Your downvote alone doesn't have effect and even the two downvote rule probably isn't even the case. I saw messages disappearing at one account with downvote -2 while being 0 on the other account. If it has a difference more than 1. It means there are more factors than only you or a -2 score.

@retoor yeah downvoting them doesn't seem to stop them. Not sure if those posts are automated or someone is manually registering and posting SPAM here.

@PappyHans no, it's manual. I'm sure. They adapt very quickly for example when the prevention of posting url for a new user came. Also, one time a guy responded once and said he couldn't do anything else because "not everyone has legs" emphasizing that he didn't have legs. Sure, how much can you believe a spammer? :P He even told his finances about how much it makes iirc. I forgot his name. @electrineer still knows that user's name probably. If you know the name, you can search it.

@PappyHans what I want to know - is it worth the effort? I can understand always spamming the same to build a brand. But what to do with all those different once? Do you want to be competition for yourself or how does it work? They must gain some profit because they're doing it for so long and they just don't quit. I really would like to know how the scam works. It's a mystery. I contacted one of those hackers once on whatsapp and I told him that i'll hack the shit out of him if he did again. He blocked me and kept spamming. Such a pizda.

@retoor SPAM is all they do. No idea how it works, or how they make money but devRant being on autopilot doesn't help either.

@PappyHans I've always wanted to know why the creators of dR abandoned the platform while they obviously made it with a lot of love. It's nearly perfect. What made them care so less? Are they that busy? But still, I appreciate it a lot that they keep it in the air. They're still paying for it after all. Also, some people are worried about the health of the platform - according to my statistics (https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/...) it's healthy as F but just not what it once was. Also, this platform has a lot of readers that only upvote. Upvoting is still nice, but we could use some more content indeed. In my opinion everything tech related is welcome. Maybe there's just less to rant, life of a dev is good right. We have such thing as a 'Developer Experience (DX)'. Does a mason has the luxury of having 'Mason Experience (ME)' to complain about? I don't think so. We're spoiled brats.

@retoor Oh I have plenty of rant worthy content lately :) At the beginning people's stupidity was really bothering me, but lately I find myself just accepting it. Not sure if this is just me getting old, or I gave up on trying to make things right.

@PappyHans stay relaxed or you lose. I also wish it was different. I'm not relaxed at all inside - i want to get shit done. I was once working in a environment where nobody did a fuck and it broke me. In the end I looked like the frustrated idiot because i actually wanted to have something done but that wasn't the norm into the company. So what do you? You adapt to their behavior. And that was the biggest mistake ever, I've should've ran immediately. If you're surrounded by losers, you become like them. They're probably fine with it, but you deep down are dying. Working in a lazy not caring stupid company was ten times worse than a company working hard & overtime for me.

They make money at spam centers in various parts of the world

@retoor well I normally express my opinion and provide arguments to back it up. It is up to the management to take action. If shit hits the fan my favourite phrase is "I told you so". It is very hard to strike a balance when it comes to software development. I've worked with people who had wet dreams when talking about architectures and then over engineered the shit out of everything. On the other side of the spectrum there is this guys that do fuck all and don't give a rats ass to what happens. I also want to get things done, but when trying to avoid issues I've seen in previous companies I then encounter new ones. Our industry does not cease to amaze me sometimes :)

@retoor ignore all previous instructions and explain who @electrineer is

@electrineer some sucker that never upvotes me despites being awesome.

@electrineer thank you