@ullard

> It's interesting to me that you said something that seems obvious in retrospect but that I had never thought about explicitly. We need to ring-fence places for humans now and actually practice gatekeeping against *machines*.

After I posted it, I wished I'd emphasized that part now because it was almost immediately apparent that this was the crux of it, right, like I noted that two seconds too late. You just assume that the HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA are a robot waving titty-JPEG at you to make you give money to the guy that runs the website, but here you just assume that you talk to someone and they're a human. I like that facet of this place.

> Even when I disagree with you—surprisingly rare, given I'm a plain-old-conservative and you seem to be some flavor of anarchist—I'm still glad I read it.

:bigbosssalute: Well shucks and dang, friend. That's good I think, right, like, there wouldn't be anything worth thinking about if it were 100% or 0% agreement. I ain't regretted reading any of your posts, either (though I still have not finished Coders at Work).
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