I hear so many raves about this site only to be disappointed when I browsed through it. I thought it was going to give rare tips on how to do REAL things.
Like…maybe?
-How to hack a slot machine
-How to create a great email con and how to get away with it
-How to maximize marijuana profits
-How to knock someone out with a headbutt
-How to make piss balloons and create an ambush
-How to use a store as a “front”
-How to seduce a woman by using spells
-How to convince people that you are truly NOT insane
Who cares about opening a beer bottle with a stapler?
Given that four of your proposed topics are clearly illegal, three of them would at least be solid grounds for a lawsuit and one is probably a lost cause, you might want to scale back your expectations from a website.
On tho other hand, knowing how to open a beer bottle with a stapler sounds like a useful skill.
Business opportunity for you! Create your own rival site that does have all the useful information you want. You could call it HackLifers. I’m sure you’re not the only one looking for such sage advice.
I regularly visit that site, and it has been a nose dive this summer. It has gotten worse as the summer has gone on. That opening a beer with a stapler was quite ridiculous.
So my best answer for you is: it used to be good.
More seriously, like the other Gawker Media sites, it’s a site with paid employees who are expected to generate a certain amount of content every day. It’s not really surprising that a lot of the “tips” are real stinkers.
Sounds like a vast improvement from when a friend recommended them to me, back in law school. Back then, two out of every three posts had to do with something called GTD (“Getting Things Done”)–some sort of productivity scheme in some sort of management book or whatever. I’d have loved to learn how to hack slot machines instead of reading to people droning on about writing notes to myself.
Some articles are fairly useful, like “How to Root ANY Android Phone,” but I agree that most of the articles sound like the Cliff’s Notes versions of those scam books managers love to buy. You know, the ones like “Good to Great” or “Six Sigma”.
Thanks.