[HN Gopher] The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
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       The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 143 points
       Date   : 2024-08-29 21:20 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (eieio.games)
        
       | asolove wrote:
       | This part is so important:
       | 
       | > The adults in my life were largely not mad at me. They asked me
       | to knock it off, but also made me a t-shirt. I don't think I'd be
       | doing what I do now without the encouragement that I received
       | then.
       | 
       | Teena need a place to be moderately mischievous, with semi-real
       | social outcomes, but also some boundaries and help to not take it
       | too far.
       | 
       | And adults who aren't authorities over them except insofar that
       | they have cool talents the kids want to learn.
        
       | nhggfu wrote:
       | what a wild ride.
        
       | mportela wrote:
       | This is what I pay internet for
        
       | eieio wrote:
       | author here :)
       | 
       | this is my favorite story from running the site, and possibly the
       | best story I've been a part of. I'm not a big crier but I have
       | cried _so many times_ thinking and trying to write about it over
       | the past 2 months. And of course, the process of discovery (and
       | going from panic to excitement) was pretty crazy too.
       | 
       | One of my favorite things about this is that it validated one of
       | the core beliefs I have when making these things - that you need
       | constraints for the small group of people that are jerks, but
       | that for the most part those constraints are fodder for the
       | largely-good and very creative folks that play around on the
       | internet.
       | 
       | Happy to answer any questions folks have!
        
         | JadoJodo wrote:
         | Hi! I missed the site but I have enjoyed reading about it
         | after. As much as I enjoyed the last article, I enjoyed this
         | one even more.
         | 
         | Thank you for both the site and the articles.
        
       | insane_dreamer wrote:
       | I never heard of OMCB before, but it's the kind of site that I
       | would love for my teenage kids to find and play with the way
       | those teens in the discord channel did--providing opportunity for
       | creativity and engineering.
        
       | larodi wrote:
       | If this really happened, on both sides - author, and haxor, well,
       | ... there is still hope for this world. Amen.
        
       | data-ottawa wrote:
       | I really enjoyed this post, it brings me back to when I was in
       | high school learning java and I made an app that took over your
       | whole screen with a grid of "x" buttons where only one of them
       | actually closed the window. When someone left their computer
       | unlocked I would pop in a a floppy disk and run the program then
       | leave.
       | 
       | We had an IT guy at our school who would always ask us what we
       | were up to which we would answer honestly. He never got mad at us
       | for figuring out how to get Halo CE or Starcraft or other games
       | running over the network, but he did tell us to knock it off when
       | we got too bold.
        
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