time-honored

Even better, you have a time-honored and very popular plan to eventually convert your free users to paid.

Because freedom of the press is a Big Deal to many Americans, and attacking members of the media personally is a time-honored and effective way to reduce that freedom.

Double buffering is easy to do in an ECS; not so much with the time-honored LOO (List of Objects) architecture.

Segregating insecure protocols to VPNs, encrypted tunnels, and backchannel networks is one of the oldest most time-honored tools in the security design toolbox.

Carefully selected customer testimonials are a time-honored tradition, and an effective one.

Undercover work and stings are a time-honored part of law enforcement.

This, of course, is good cop-bad cop, another time-honored negotiation tactic.

It's a time-honored practice whose results have been proven repeatedly.

No, but if it's a different implementation of the same concept then I'd say that's a time-honored tradition in the game industry.

It's a time-honored coding technique, which I first saw on the 68000-based Macs in the 80s, and which probably dates back much earlier.

Causing indiscriminate collateral damage (and using various arguments to deflect blame onto your enemies) until people submit to your whims is a long and time-honored tradition (for example, terrorists).

Time Machine backup to my Synology NAS, then a time-honored offsite backup -- I clone my drive and physically leave the latest copy at my parents' house.

The time-honored tradition of "doubling and adding some" is simply the process of converting an estimate into a commitment before bringing it to the table.

Vicious attacks against those who (appear to be about to) "leave the fold" are also long and time-honored tradition (for example, apostasy in religious-ruled countries).

Having lost the plot of your other argument, you fall back on the time-honored low-effort HN comment, "Isn't this useless?" Your questions could be answered, but not by me.

Observe its killer features, designed to make the customer feel good despite the fact that nobody can solve his "problem": (A) It appeals to higher authority, a time-honored negotiation tactic.