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Re:70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam by sabbaticaldev on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @08:54AM (#41180900)
I think you are making a confusion about what's the broken windows theory, I suggest reading about it:

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

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Re:70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam by MostlyAmiable on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @09:16AM (#41181140)
The other commenter was actually just mixing it up with the broken windows fallacy[0]. Funnily enough, it's a common enough confusion that both of the pages reference each other at the top of the page.

>This article is about the economic parable. For the criminological theory, see Broken windows theory.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

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Re:70% of new NPM packages in last 6 months were spam by sumtechguy on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @11:20AM (#41182324)
ah I see my mistake.
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