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Id hope most people realize how easy it'd be to manipulate. Reminds me of the LinkedIn recommendation system is completely pointless as you can easily create d
by Namrog84 10y ago
Id hope most people realize how easy it'd be to manipulate.
Reminds me of the LinkedIn recommendation system is completely pointless as you can easily create dummy accounts for referrals. I doubt most people spend much effort investigating the peers and you could come across looking better.
There are tons of opportunities out there to be manipulative if you really wanted to be. Same with github repo example code and lots more.
Just depends if you personally want to risk it and put in effort.
- fuqted 10y agoYou can do the same with upvotes here. Anyway, that's why Codewars censors the answers if you haven't completed the challenge and doesn't allow you to earn credit for the challenge if you choose to view the answer. Of course you can choose to make a dummy account and view the answers, but you'd really have to be desperate to do such a thing. And this is all pointless anyway.
- darklajid 10y agoAgreed, you might be able to cheat your way to a high(er) karma. But do you know about any company hiring based on the HN comment karma/score for some reason? That would be .. weird, right?
- danieltillett 10y agoSome companies might use high karma to reject candidates :)
- sundvor 10y agoWhat, you spend all day on Hacker News? Get out of here!
- danieltillett 10y agoI suppose it is slightly better than spending all day on stack overflow.