Yup. I did an eyeroll once I found out just how shallow it was, though. Really, if you're able to make an online toy like that, at least make it interesting.
Did you follow any of the relevant threads on Making Light during IWriteLike-Gate? After they had outed the hacker's plans to sell his cute little app to the self-publishing exploitation gang (they tracked down his hacker board posts about 'monetizing' the app), the little sh*t turned up in the thread himself and tried to bluster and deny and threaten.
Then the toy went offline, and then came back online without the affiliation to the vanity publisher. The whole thing was a scheme to set up hopeful noobs for getting fleeced. Thus did he suffer the wrath of Yog (yes, the Yog; Jim MacDonald was one of the people who outed him).
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Re: uber lame even for an LJ toy
Date: 2011-06-12 11:39 pm (UTC)Did you follow any of the relevant threads on Making Light during IWriteLike-Gate? After they had outed the hacker's plans to sell his cute little app to the self-publishing exploitation gang (they tracked down his hacker board posts about 'monetizing' the app), the little sh*t turned up in the thread himself and tried to bluster and deny and threaten.
Then the toy went offline, and then came back online without the affiliation to the vanity publisher. The whole thing was a scheme to set up hopeful noobs for getting fleeced. Thus did he suffer the wrath of Yog (yes, the Yog; Jim MacDonald was one of the people who outed him).
BTW, apparently it's mostly keyword driven.