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Re:How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes by slg on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @06:02AM (#14742837)
>It's a total shirking of responsibility that inadvertently praises being able to game any existing system regardless of the purpose for which the system exists in the first place

I disagree. It is simply an acknowledgement that the system has failed the purpose for which it exists. When that system fails, attacking the people who found the flaw isn't a viable long term solution. The only real solution is to fix the system that failed in the first place.

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Re:How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes by dmreedy on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @08:45AM (#14743633)
I have yet to encounter a system that doesn't have some dramatic set of failures. I also have yet to encounter a system whose failures were not made dramatically more painful by 'players'.

The intention is encoded in the terminology. Sometimes it's not a game.

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