[No.121] Things I wouldn't want to see as cheat techniques on note
Shohei Ohtani's cheat-like nature
In an article about Shohei Ohtani's jam-shot RBI in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series the other day, a reporter's comment that "he is a cheat" was featured.
My vocabulary is limited, so I had just let it slide until now, but I didn't really understand the meaning of "cheat"...
Embarrassingly, I looked up the meaning of "cheat" after reading the article about Ohtani.
Cheat (English: cheat) means to deceive or trick. In computer games, in a broad sense, it refers to an act where a user intentionally compromises fairness through methods or results not intended by the creator.
In a narrow sense, it refers to fraudulent acts or hacking (using bugs, etc.) in computer games to gain an advantage.
Features that the creator intentionally built in and released are specifications and are not called cheating, but "bug exploits" that use undisclosed features, specification bugs, or implementation bugs are, as the name suggests, cheating.
I see, I see.
So, calling Ohtani a cheat must mean he is "a person who pulls off things so unexpected that it makes you think it's a bug" (or is that slightly off?)
Ah, I wish I had such bugged abilities too... Being an ordinary person somehow lacks excitement.
"Wow, Yoshimaru-san, that is totally a cheat!"
I'm sure I'll never hear those words in my entire life...
3 things I wouldn't want to see as cheat techniques on note
So, are there any cheat-level techniques on this note platform that even an ordinary person could use?
There are many articles titled 'How to master note,' but the content of such articles is what you might call the 'orthodox approach'.
So, I decided to let my slightly wicked side out and came up with three cheat tactics that border on foul play (or are they completely out of bounds?) that I wouldn't want to see on note.
The 'Leave everything to AI' strategy, including article posting
If it were just about writing articles, there are probably people actually doing this (lol).
The article content would involve analyzing popular articles, writing about genres with many readers, and posting at the most optimal times.
Beyond that, it would involve finding creators who are likely to give likes and follows, and commenting on other creators' articles as if they remember everything about those creators' work to build rapport.
Oh, isn't this a complete 'cheat state'! But the creator who introduced the AI wouldn't be having any fun at all... It's a nasty tactic.
The 'Carpet bombing (article posting) on niche tags to monopolize Congratulation badges' strategy
This might not be a cheat at all, but it involves posting multiple articles every day in niche tags to monopolize them. Winning Congratulation badges every week and then adding more niche tags to aim for even more badges.
This isn't so much something I'd hate, but rather something that might actually work. However, since the same type of article is written every time, both the writer and the reader would likely get bored. It's still something I wouldn't want.
The 'Join note as a group and wipe out other creators' strategy
If a large group joined all at once, it would look suspicious, so they would send in operatives little by little every day, and after sending in about 10,000 people, they would rise up all at once after a certain period. They would flood the comment sections of other creators' articles all at once to cause mental breakdowns, or monopolize Congratulation badges by liking and commenting on each other's work, bringing the whole thing into a state of total chaos through a collective uprising.
...Isn't this just a terrorist act? A group uprising might be able to take over the entire note platform if done well. However, if an obvious anomaly is detected, the management wouldn't just sit by and watch. If such a cheat tactic existed, I would be terrified and run away as fast as I could.
That's all I've written as it came to mind, but I've ended up writing a truly pointless article that will be of absolutely no use for future note posts...
But sometimes,
"I have no idea how your thought process works"
I want to write pointless articles like that, and I take a positive view that it's fine for both the writer and the reader to have fun with articles written while playing around in one's head (lol).
If everything is too serious, both sides will probably get tired, so please think of this as a light workout for the brain (did I manage to justify that well?).
If there were any cheat codes for note for you all, what would they be? I'm sure you're thinking, "If I had time to think about that, I'd write an article!" but as a brain teaser or just for fun, you might find it surprisingly enjoyable to think about. And with that, I conclude this article.
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