Then, as with many real online jobs, you’ll probably get frustrated and go mess around on Hypnospace. You’ll read Hypnospace pages looking for an oblique reference that might provide a lead, plug the lead into a tag search tool, and tumble down a rabbit hole finding more information - until something leads you to the offending page. But often, you’re hunting down a specific piece of malware or disturbing imagery. Sometimes you’re just clicking around your zones like a cop on the beat, looking for mean kids or banned payment processors. The images disappear, and your next case comes in. (“You’ve got Hypnomail,” a strange robot-skull version of Clippy will intone.) A cartoonist’s estate is complaining about copyright violations in one of your designated zones, and your job is to browse Hypnospace until you find the offending imagery, then use a virtual gavel to hit the content and report it. Your first moderation case comes in via email. Hypnospace Outlaw is a sort of detective game. And you’ll be really helping the founders of Merchantsoft: Adrian Merchant, a strait-laced entrepreneur looking to take Hypnospace mainstream, and his brother Dylan, an irreverent hacker type who seems a little uncomfortable with his own success. With a little hard work, you can earn enough HypnoCoin to buy a new desktop theme or your very own virtual pet squid. You’re not an ordinary user you’re a moderator hunting down pirated music, malicious software, and abusive users. In Hypnospace Outlaw, you are a new user of the super-futuristic ‘90s Hypnospace network, a virtual world that is accessed through a headband while dreaming, yet is effectively composed of GeoCities pages. If you’ve frequented certain older web forums, someone may have once told you to “lurk more.” The command admonishes newcomers to immerse themselves in a strange new digital environment until they understand its quirks and topography - to become part of a culture specifically by not participating in it.
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