Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples
by tomhoward on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:34PM
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There is no social/moral rule against simulating usage on a brand new website that has no organic usage.
People in this thread are writing whole screeds arguing the importance of condemning this supposed moral breach, but itβs a case of the beg the question fallacy: people are seeking to prove there was a moral breach by assuming there was a moral breach.
I say again: nobody who was an early organic visitor to Reddit has ever complained of being deceived or harmed, and indeed they self-evidently benefited by finding content they liked and a site they wanted to post to.
People in this thread are writing whole screeds arguing the importance of condemning this supposed moral breach, but itβs a case of the beg the question fallacy: people are seeking to prove there was a moral breach by assuming there was a moral breach.
I say again: nobody who was an early organic visitor to Reddit has ever complained of being deceived or harmed, and indeed they self-evidently benefited by finding content they liked and a site they wanted to post to.