It's worrying that something as harmless as this comes across as a stunt with some ulterior motive. Not everything is a viral marketing campaign.
Re:Did I just win?
by Bromskloss on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:02PM
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I like to suspect everything that gains attention to be a marketing campaign.
As somebody who knows the person in question: Nice theory, but no. Not everybody has ulterior motives like this.
steps 1 and 2 remind me of how Congress works
I started laughing then remembered that I live in the US for the last 5 years and started crying instead.
Re:Did I just win?
by DonkeyChan on Friday May 13, 2016 @09:53PM
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He offered him BTC for it.
Not so much free...
Re:Did I just win?
by PhasmaFelis on Friday May 13, 2016 @09:00PM
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You've discovered that social media is mostly used for getting attention. Congratulations, that was very clever of you.
Re:Did I just win?
by dclowd9901 on Friday May 13, 2016 @07:46PM
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I was trying to figure out the actual angle here because the challenger couldn't have been that stupid. I think you've hit the nail on the head.
2. Offer a $100 bounty to people who can trick me into getting some string into my projects. The easiest way to "trick" me of course is to hide it inside of a PR which fixes a real issue.
3. Find and remove the string before merging the PR. I've had one of my issues fixed for free. Rinse and repeat!
Bonus Round: Stage an announcement on twitter and have someone cleverly trick me into including the string on my website (which I was totally going to do anyway). Post clever trick to code geek social media and reap the sweet free viral marketing and hackers trying to earn a Benjamin.