If the experiment was making money, it did just fine. If it was influencing people’s behaviour it did just fine. If, however, it was supposed to have some pos

If the experiment was making money, it did just fine. If it was influencing people’s behaviour it did just fine. If, however, it was supposed to have some positive impact on its users or the world, unfortunately, that got buried long ago. Usenet, maybe, was positive but Gresham’s law always wins.