Beats selling spaghetti code, which is what I do.

Just skimmed but seems like a decent idea. Not that I've knowingly run into issues parsing JSON too much

My favourite is when you have a friend, or known reviewer, going on about how something sucks, and you realise that it sounds right up your alley.

I specifically rented The One, because of Roger Ebert's 1 and 1/2 star review in the newspaper, trashing Jet Li's The One (just to totally date myself).

God I feel like my city is in the relative pizza stone age compared to this

Becoming increasingly pleased that I don't recognise this face

I'm ethically opposed to much of this, but I can't fault it for lack of ambition. It's like a built-in dessert with every slice

It is unnecessary.

this but ack

It's not right, but I'll admit the instance someone is from has an impact.

As a forum user I agree, but would like to add that many forums do have a kind of "demerit point" system for incivility. Where racking up enough points gets you temporarily muted or banned.

My instance requires that users say a little about why they want to join. Works just fine.

If someone isn't willing to introduce themselves, why would they even want to register? If they just want to lurk, they can do so anonymously.

EDIT I just noticed we're from the same instance lol, so you definitely know what I'm talking about 😆