samx500 claims to have developed a "tool" that is effective against various infections first seen here. The questionable header and footer guards, as I have come to call them, spiked my interest in how they work and their effectiveness. The inventor claims they even make quoting safe, which would be a revolutionary feat since the discovery of the Trashipitus B virus. I have launched an investigation to confirm or debunk such claims and set the record straight: do the guards work or is it just snake oil?
At first my results showed promise. A case study of people using them vs people not using them revealed that people who use the guards have significantly lower rates of infection. This is when I proceeded to hint at the good news and joined in on the trend as well. However, I am a scientist, no, mad scientist of rigorousness, and I must confirm whether it was a mere coincidence. After all, what if the people who use them are the same people who would be prone to lower rates of infection due to their normal behavior?
In a trial of 100 of my smartest idiots, all of them got trashipitus after quoting someone who was infected. Why didn't the guards protect them? The answer was hidden in my original trashipitus research (and I safely quote myself thanks to my last research):
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There are 3 things to takeaway from this:
Even if the guards work to prevent infections by blocking the pathogens, they will not eliminate what has already been long in the person, and the guards certainly don't block visual patterns if you can read this. So all in all, maybe it can save foreigners first coming into OT who have yet to get the trashipitus, but it will certainly not do anything to the long established denizens here. Quoting continues to be as dangerous as it has been.
At first my results showed promise. A case study of people using them vs people not using them revealed that people who use the guards have significantly lower rates of infection. This is when I proceeded to hint at the good news and joined in on the trend as well. However, I am a scientist, no, mad scientist of rigorousness, and I must confirm whether it was a mere coincidence. After all, what if the people who use them are the same people who would be prone to lower rates of infection due to their normal behavior?
In a trial of 100 of my smartest idiots, all of them got trashipitus after quoting someone who was infected. Why didn't the guards protect them? The answer was hidden in my original trashipitus research (and I safely quote myself thanks to my last research):
abraker wrote:
Seems like the content hypothesis is starting to get hold. There has been a recent concensus that visual stimulation of certain patterns displayed would cause the infected to exhibit something like an urge to respond to the pattern. We haven't yet identified the similarities between the patterns but it is believed to be persistent to such degree that the infected would exhibit the behavior to any displayed pattern after being exposed to the initial pattern which triggers such behavior. Sadly, that makes statiscal analysis among the cases that much harder.
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abraker wrote:
It is believed everyone has it but is yet to be exposed to the specific displayed content that triggers the symptoms.
There are 3 things to takeaway from this:
- Everyone is believed to have been infected with trashipitus at one point or another. Which means most denizens probably have antibodies against it
- Denizens still tend to display trashipitus symptoms despite having antibodies against trashipitus
- Certain visual stimulation invokes those trashipitus symptoms
Even if the guards work to prevent infections by blocking the pathogens, they will not eliminate what has already been long in the person, and the guards certainly don't block visual patterns if you can read this. So all in all, maybe it can save foreigners first coming into OT who have yet to get the trashipitus, but it will certainly not do anything to the long established denizens here. Quoting continues to be as dangerous as it has been.
