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More manipulation of OctoPrint's anonymous usage stats
- h2odragon 2y agoPeople can share, and share responsibility for a utility. A tool. When you have a "community" the games are endless, and need not have any connection to the original purposes. why does a simple tool need to have a community? Why must popularity contests and personality cults be a factor in our software? How can such things lead to better software? Aren't they much more likely to lead to results like this?
- jononor 2y agoThat is pretty shitty behavior. I understand that the maintainer feels annoyed and betrayed, especially since it came from a partner. That said, the actual consequences of the stats being manipulated on the project as a whole seems rather low? Someone was able to unfairly win a popularity contest for a while... Not a big deal. From Octoprint side it seems to be have been handled professionally and with integrity. If anything I think it increases my respect and trust for the project. So I hope the maintainer finds some time to sit back and relax, see that this was not a big problem in the grand scheme of things. One can laugh at these petty companies that are trying to game the high score list by cheating.