Crazy Ideas

New posts should be in a general, catch-all section. OP could suggest a community/tag but it wouldn’t appear there right away. Other users can tag the post for a particular community or label it SPAM/Troll/Abuse.

If enough users tag a post for a community, it shows up in that community feed.

New users can’t tag until they reach a threshold of comments/posts that are positively received—not SPAM, has upvotes, replies.

This will enforce a level of moderation even when the community mods have ghosted.

There would be no cross-posting per se. Posts could be tagged for multiple communities but must reach a certain amount of tags for each community before it appears there.

You just roll the dice, move around the board, and draw cards that tell you to move around the board some more

Let’s face it basketball has peaked. But on skateboards it could be way better. The rules are you must dribble each time your foot touches down, otherwise you can shoot or pass while rolling. If you lose your board you sit on the bench for 1 minute like a penalty box. Okay this idea kinda stinks but I’d really love to play.

You could run a local instance for a school or whatever and initially let the kids only talk to each other then slowly let them out to access a list of safe instances as they get older and learn more about internet safety. Might teach a healthier relationship with the internet.

Try it out. You can actually say anything now.

Heard it on The Starters and it sounds nice.

No credentials, no qualifications, just a live stream of everything that isn't classified.

"Hey chat, these guys just said some wild shit about foreign policy. Is that legit? Lawyers in the chat, what should I say?"

Every citizen can join the chat, decisions are based on polls. I foresee equal parts "Whip ur dik out" and "Bring up the provisions of Ch. 4 Subsection III, highlight the intersection of Art. VI with Johnson v. Hackensak"

Not ideal, obviously, but compared to the current state of things? Could definitely be worse. Why not, at this point? At least it's transparent.

I for one would find it hilarious to see the headline, "Sam Altman indicted on charges of witchcraft."

I was just listening to a documentary special about the Golden Girls and thought about how all documentary specials about TV shows are about really popular ones that are always described as groundbreaking and shows everyone watched. Just for a change, it'd be interesting to see one that says "this show was so generic, there was nothing special about it, and the audience didn't care"

But only for 1 day. Don't announce it ahead of time.

Instead, people just show up, and see banners saying "Back in stock, Szechuan Sauce!!!"

But you only see that banner if you go inside. No promotion. No social media. No mention of any kind besides a single banner at the ordering counter.

Then tweet about it the NEXT day. After it's gone.

After playing some Tux, hot shower water gave me a vision. Imagine, there is a sport carting league for CEOs and billionaires, that is inherently wasteful like golf, but is universally accepted as a breathing period for all world's populace from their shenanigans. Any moment they cart, they don't cut or monopolize essential things. And being like a real sport, it prevents them from casually walking around and networking, like golf is used by most.

The core of this theme is a team of CEO and their secretary over the phone. Their interactions is what gives characters personality, gives some comedic commentary on how they are unhinged.

For example, one of the CEO characters, when wins, opens a bottle of champaigne when they win and uncontrollably bump into the wall the next moment. Secretary then reminds them, once again, that drinking and driving is not recommended. On track, they are always sniffing and complain about how coke makes them sneeze, and how, after being stopped, they could've run faster than cart if not for cardiologist's advice.

Another have pointless metrics shown in the garage, and choosing different hats, cars doesn't affect performance but makes them less over the top annoying in their reactions to the environment. Losing or bumping into the wall causes them to put blame on having less SPEED or ACCELERATION than others, and it should be corrected not by the next quarter, NOW. Their secretary nods, saying they would look into it. If they loose, they fire a random department at their company.

All extra abilities make them play their bit. Like putting oil on the road causes saudi oil baron to flex, and others to calculate waste they could use other way, like powering their crypto servers. The metrics guy complains, why the fuck his car leaks, and their secretary patiently explains that's how they win.

Another ghoul's topic is immortality by blood transfusion and essential oils. Losing makes them remark, that they'd outlive others in the long run. Bumping makes them order another body part replacement from a black market.

In story mode, each chapter generously extrapolate time that took you to complete it to real life, and then calculate how much suffering and waste didn't happen. Playing a Melon Husk, you'd see how many CO² wasn't emitted by his personal plane while he was kartmaxxing.

The tracks themselves are historically or otherwise significant sites that get joyfully destructed over the course of the race to show their recklessness and what sacrifice their prolonged existence implies.

This winter, keep yourself and your family warm!

And nobody does winter better than the propane king!

Introducing, the all new line up of "Propane Windows"! TM.

Big 40,000 btu windows, small 1000btu windows! We do it all! Need a doggy or cat door? No problem! Training included!

Small print...in the unlikely event that the pet does get stuck, we provide KFC secret sauce and ketchup. Do not place any body parts thru the pet doors including the round canary hole as this can cause serious burns and or death, mostly death.

Publicly-available web applications typically keep an "access log" -- a log of every request made to a website or web application hit by end users including the URL path. This log is usually viewable by developers.

Aside from that, typically web applications are constantly monitored by various monitoring/alerting software like Data Dog, NewRelic, Dynatrace, Pagerduty, etc, which has the ability to constantly monitor things like the error rate and if the end user's error rate sharply increases from 1% to 10%, let's say, it will send a message directly to a developer's phone.

The thing is, the content of the access logs and the alerts generated are things that depend very significantly on end user behavior. You can literally put arbitrary content into a url and that will show up in the access log. Manipulating alerting might be more challenging, but it could be done with a coordinated group of people (a la [LOIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Orbit_Ion_Cannon, though it would take a lot less traffic than a DDOS typically would).

Particularly for websites that don't offer any way to contact them, I'll sometimes drop a message to them in a url and refresh a good dozen times or so. Particularly to express displeasure. Just on the hope that someone will run across it in the access log.

• https://example.com/your_website_apparently_just_doesnt_load_at_all_in_chrome
• https://example.com/fuck_your_signup_wall
• https://example.com/I_cant_in_good_conscience_continue_to_utilize_your_service

Stuff like that. It's surprising how often I feel I have a reason to do that.

(And to be fair, the chance someone would happen across it would be pretty seriously low if a) I was just doing this on my own and b) the site got any significant amount of traffic for me to get drowned out in. I tend to take that into account when I'm doing this. Given how much traffic it gets, what time of day it is, how good the IT department is likely to be, etc, how likely is it to be seen?)

But if you can get a bunch of people involved, you can coordinate to hit one particular URL with a message in it and get a lot of 404s that might well end up in reports or alerts.

But why would you want to do this?

• Protest - A clear message to a company or other organization (government agency, whatever) that what they're doing is not ok with the people. Proof that a company has received such a message can also provide ammunition for a movement.
• Alerting employees to the bad actions of their employer.
• Just being helpful - It's entirely possible for some sites that they just don't know that some particular thing may be broken, vulnerable, or otherwise "bad" in a fixable way. And if there's not a better way to contact them, this might be the only real option. While the whole "coordinated effort a la LOIC" thing might not work, if this became a more common practice, it could be of benefit.
• Clandestine communications with employees without bosses finding out.

Good practices:

• For alerts, remember there's a human on the other end of that alert. Don't wake them at 3:00am for your political cause. Ping them at 2:00pm (their timezone.) It's cool if their boss is paying them to deal with that.
• Consider your target. Do the math. Get an idea how likely it is that what you're attempting will accomplish your goal -- get to the right audience or whatever.
• Try to make what you're doing stand-out to who you're attempting to communicate with. Put ASCII art in it. Use all caps. Put in words/phrases they're likely to be grepping for.
• Maybe use an unusual user agent if you want your messages easily grepped for. (Once you've got their curiosity, they might want to see more.)
• Consider anonymizing technologies like VPNs or Tor. Depending on your aims.
• Consider what will end up putting your message in reports to management.

Could this be used for evil? Yeah, probably. Maybe it's already being done?

• Spamming/scamming website owners. (This could get especially annoying on a large, industrial scale.)
• Head hunting/poaching employees.
• Log injection.

And the price? So good, it's to die for!

Metformin tastes horrible, which is a problem I think this could solve

I may be a little high

I know damn well what I wrote.