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I wonder how much this happens in other communities. No doubt it happens with NPM.

• patates 10y ago
  > No doubt it happens with NPM. Could you please care to explain why?
  • bcruddy 10y ago
    Because NPM is the largest package ecosystem ever
• jessaustin 10y ago
  I'd have less doubt, if I were to see some examples...
• hinkley 10y ago
  The Java community became familiar with the term 'astroturfing' after JBoss was caught doing it. Rot in hell, Marc Fleury
• stevekemp 10y ago
  Certainly the docker repositories are vulnerable to this. If you look at a users' profile page you can see the download-count for each image. The biggest download count becomes the most popular image, and you can script it trivially: docker pull skxskx/wordpress docker pull skxskx/wordpress .. docker pull skxskx/wordpress It's not something that I regard as a problem, but I did notice in passing and added 50 downloads to a few of my images on evening to test the concept.