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Re:Twitter was down by teddyh on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:05PM (#20415250)
> Are you suggesting that the team would deliberately crash the app to receive beers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

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Re:Twitter was down by Raphmedia on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:16PM (#20415359)
Yes, the cobra effect exists. Should this mean that everyone needs to stop all forms of positive reinforcement? I don't believe so.

I doubt anyone would risk a comfortable job at Twitter against a few bottles of beers. Even if they are really fancy, that's what... $20-50?

If this had been worded as a "Haha, I stole the bad team's beer" I would have laughed.

However, worded as "where is my reward for being smart and stopping the cobra effect?" that's just an humble brag and plain unfunny.

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