Is this like some kind of reverse psychology shit, where a demand to not scrape or crawl the data is supposed to make people go oh, yeah, I must be missing some great data! instead of staying away from it in droves because X is the cesspool it has now become?
I mean yeah, there is some fraction of good material there, but increasingly it is just the worst that society has to offer, the cockroaches that came scurrying out when Trump turned the light on for them.
As an individual I want no part of that, yet it seems to me that before you’d spend time scraping or crawling data, you’d actually want the data. I would rather scrape catshit off my shoe than scrape that hot mess. At least catshit is more honest, and chances are lower that I will have to pick swastikas out of it.
Is this like some kind of reverse psychology shit, where a demand to not scrape or crawl the data is supposed to make people go oh, yeah, I must be missing some great data! instead of staying away from it in droves because X is the cesspool it has now become?
I mean yeah, there is some fraction of good material there, but increasingly it is just the worst that society has to offer, the cockroaches that came scurrying out when Trump turned the light on for them.
As an individual I want no part of that, yet it seems to me that before you’d spend time scraping or crawling data, you’d actually want the data. I would rather scrape catshit off my shoe than scrape that hot mess. At least catshit is more honest, and chances are lower that I will have to pick swastikas out of it.