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I want to add Hanlon's razor to this. Some are pointing straight to malice and intentional misleading. It wouldn’t surprise me if they wanted to make it genui

I want to add Hanlon's razor to this. Some are pointing straight to malice and intentional misleading. It wouldn’t surprise me if they wanted to make it genuinely work originally, but realised they could save a lot of money, resources and sprints just faking it in js. More laziness and “oh shit this project was bigger than we thought let’s find a shortcut” than outright malice.

abootstrapper 7y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if it genuinely worked to begin with, but the numbers were lower than they expected so then they just made it random.
ggm 7y ago
That's not Hanlon's razor: they had a moment where they commit an act of fraud by intent, not by incompetent behaviour.
- jayflux 7y ago
  The point is, rather than setting out to maliciously deceive people it could have just been laziness. There’s multiple angles to what could have happened.
  - ceejayoz 7y ago
    "I'm going to commit fraud out of laziness" is plenty malicious.
microcolonel 7y ago
For another example: for about two years, Twitter on the web had a feature in the notifications section, a dropdown on each notification item with a "See less often" option which appeared to the user to send feedback or preferences to Twitter, but in reality sent nothing.