Re:Ask HN: How do you grow a non-profit site to global scale?
by orangea on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:59AM
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If your site becomes a spectacle/popular/viral, which I don't think it will, people will submit false data. I don't see how you can possibly deal with that.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you grow a non-profit site to global scale?
by tmikaeld on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @02:20AM
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True, only a single determined person with a botnet it more than enough to wreck it completely.
Re:Ask HN: How do you grow a non-profit site to global scale?
by antoine_b on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:22AM
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Our metrics are low enough at the moment that we would notice anyone trying to add thousands or even millions or records. But I hear you.
Re:Ask HN: How do you grow a non-profit site to global scale?
by antoine_b on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:21AM
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That's what they said about wikipedia and here it stands 20 years later, stronger than ever. Trolls will always exist but there are ways to keep them at bay, we're working on it.