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I am so disappointed to see this on the first page of HN.

I looked at the title of the article. I said "I'm certainly not clicking that. Linkbait city."

Then I said to myself: "You know, I bet the top-rated comment on this link is something like 'I am shocked, shocked to find this on the front page of news.yc'." So I had to click through, just to find out.

And now I feel kind of dirty. If first-order porn is, well, porn... and second-order porn is trolling (posting links to porn and watching eagerly as people self-righteously denounce them) what the hell did I just do? Third-order metaporn. Eeeeewwwww.

You tested a theory you had. You wanted some evidence about whether it was true, or not. I'd called that 'satisfying curiosity' or some other positive term.

Adult websites are made by Web entrepreneurs and hackers not too different from those who make Facebook and Myspace. I'm sure you need a different set of connections and background though.

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