Techrights Became a Lot More Productive as a Result of Attacks on It
At the very beginning of 2023 things changed. I consciously began doing long-form articles about a workplace that I had left. I could, for example, comment on ISO shams [1, 2] and even pension fraud. Later in that year my wife, my mother, my dead grandparents and even my siblings came under attacks from people who either envied the site or just wanted to 'cancel' me. They did loads of criminal things, which of course we reported to the police. We later escalated this some more [1, 2] and carried on writing long-form articles. It was, at that stage, our most productive year and I managed to learn a lot more about the legal system. That learning, I reckoned, would pay off much later. Learning or research results in better writings.
The attacks served to reaffirm the importance of the site and what it does. Accordingly, I decided to devote even more time to it.
Slopwatch started less than a year ago, seeing the main online platform (the Web, not Geminispace) was waning and entering a sort of existential crisis, a la:
We're not too worried about slop because we never used any and we recognise many people out there look for legitimate sites with real information, which is what we always provide. Slop competes with other slop and targets gullible people whose literacy skills restrain their ability to vet or choose authoritative sources. By default, it's safe to assume anything "out there" on the Web is garbage, especially in social control media. █