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Show HN: I Made a Website to Crowdsource the Best WFH Excuses

wfh.ninja

37 pointschristinang8922 comments

Would love to see the culture change to require excuses to come in to the office instead. :)

I know a rhetorics teacher at my uni who will marvel at this idea! Seriously, for practical rhetoric teachers this site will provide a good segway into the rhetorics of excuses and to a lesser extent ethics.

i actually noticed a lot of people downvoting "excuses" and decided to switch the positions of the vote up and down buttons. Previously, the vote up was on the left and down on the right. I'm curious to see if the votes will now swing the other way ;)

Probably not. I have "downvoted" bunch of them to just see the next one, until I realized that I'm really downvoting them.

I did the exact same thing...Now I feel bad because I down voted some awesome ones.

i kept clicking and clicking, where's the payoff? it'd be nice to have a button to see a chart of most popular, least popular, etc

that's a great point. i will be adding that in soon :) thanks!

fwiw, i just added a badge next to each quote to show the points... hope to build a summary page soon :)

i like it. simple and effective.

For anyone who doesn't recognise the term and is too lazy to click through, WFH = working from home.

This is not the sort of thing that helps the Remote working movement in the slightest. If anything it reinforces the negative connotations management types already have about remote working.

This has to be the simplest React app I've seen yet :)

(not having a go - just made me chuckle!)

:) i had fun building it! slightly off tangent though, building it via flask backend was a pain. on hindsight, i'd probably have used node instead.

Why was it a pain?

this reminds me of http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl

I added mine but can't keep track of it.

If anyone sees 1 about office hygiene and taking a dump, please share the URL, as I think it is quite valid and would like to track its progress.

Here you go - http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=150 :)

you're a superstar!

Edit: Looks like I'm down to -1 now. I think either bots are randomly pressing buttons, your voting is rigged (or ran()dom) or my suggestion just sucked :)

Nice work building it though.

I did notice a few ips voting excessively. I don't think they are bots, probably just trolls. I should implement ip limits.

I had too much faith in the Internet - Evidently I'm wrong :p

Giving visitors a vote button will shake your faith in the internet. Giving unregistered visitors a text field that doesn't require approval before being listed, that's just downright dangerous! :P

it actually requires approval before it is shown to others ;) making it seem like it was listed when u submit it is a "feel good" thing. of course, if users figure out the quoteid of the specific submission, it is still publicly available. its all in the name of fun :)

interesting to see how some of these have received huge numbers of downvotes.. e.g. this one: http://wfh.ninja/?quoteId=7

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