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Comment by greatgib

The point of the chief editor is so true that I'm surprised to read that from them.

I have noticed that a lot of times with this kind of web media.

- You have a clickbait title like this: "How a normal guy managed to hack WallStreet with a simple pen"

- Then, you have one page of interesting introduction on the topic but without the reply to the title question.

"In november 2018, WallStreet was busy with the introduction of xxxx, and suddenly a problem happened, everything went black. To understand, wallstreet works with computers that are connected with a modern system... 300 words ... and on that cold night of the 23 nov 2020, one man John Crowford destroyed all of that."

- Then you have 10 pages of useless crap and fake intervews about the childhood of the guy and a lot of things that are not interesting, and not related to the subject.

"His mother was blond, she liked to eat fries. But despite that, John Crowford liked to eat popcorn. So much that his friend reported that, one time, he stayed at a movie theater for a whole day just to eat popcorns ... Studies at the yyy school were ok, but he followed them without passion until he met Carolinas Brocolis a hot night of summer 1992. Together they got 3 kids ... he was not supposed to live in New York as he was born in California, but he found a job there, ..."

- And then, you finally have the explanation that is, most of the time, short and straightforward.

"So, he was hired as a Janitor in Wall Street, and accidentally put his pen inside the holes of a power plug, resulting in a major power failure. THE END"

After reading such a story, either you did skip to the end directly, or you are very angry to have lost so much time reading useless things.

parent greatgib 6 years ago

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