Podcast
150- Mobman 2
Darknet Diaries
- First Online Post
- Jack Rhysider’s first online post, a video game guide, was met with harsh criticism.
- This experience taught him the internet adage: “The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer.” Transcript: Jack Rhysider I remember the first time I posted something online. It was a video game guide in the 90s. And there’s an internet adage that I think is true. It goes like this. The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer. I posted a guide on how to beat a video game. And it immediately got downvoted, mocked, ridiculed, and I was told to get good. At first, I thought they were joking, like I’ve beaten this game a hundred times with this strategy. What are you talking about? Get good. But then after some pushback, they started cluing me in, telling me exactly where my advice was wrong and giving me tips on how to properly do those parts of the game. I was blown away. What I thought was impossible to do in the game, people were actually doing. Now, dear listener, this experience shaped me for who I am today. If you post something genuinely helpful online and people mock you, that could be the end of you ever posting anything online again. It’s enough to ruin your self-confidence and hate everyone online. But I had the opposite reaction. I loved this game and played it thousands of times. They were giving me tips and strategies on how to be way better than my best strategy that I had. And I genuinely wanted to be way better. Not only that, I got to make friends with other people who were really passionate about this game. It was an amazing experience. Fast forward to today. We’re 150 episodes into this podcast. That’s 134 hours of me yapping. I’ve got a lot of feedback over the years. Most of it is positive. But today, today I’ve got to correct something I got wrong. Really (Time 0:00:01)