Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples

Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by emblaegh on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:41AM (#38023569)

How would this be unethical in reddit's case? It's not like they tried to raise money (from investors or users) using the faked activity.

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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by ekianjo on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:17AM (#38023741)

Deceiving early days users. Since when lying is OK?

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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by mdorazio on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:05AM (#38024978)

What did they lie about? People on Reddit and right here on HN use multiple accounts all the time (look at all the throwaway accounts).

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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by ekianjo on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:11AM (#38035228)

throwaway is very explicit, there's no lie involved since everyone knows what it means.

> What did they lie about?

Fake users being piloted by the same person behind the screen. If that's not a lie, then I don't know what is.

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Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples by sbarre on Friday October 27, 2023 @07:44AM (#38037262)

geez, if that's your biggest complaint about discussion forums, you live a pretty blessed life.

We're talking about Internet discussion forums here.. The amount of fakery, lying, bullshit and outright awfulness that happens on forums every single day across the whole Internet is staggering.

If they used aliases to kickstart discussions and try to get people involved and contributing, I'm not sure that's something to get your pitchfork out about.

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