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An alternative point of view is that people are complaining on HN to warn others about scammers and unsavory companies in their mix. Without being able to name
by true_religion 14y ago
An alternative point of view is that people are complaining on HN to warn others about scammers and unsavory companies in their mix.
Without being able to name and shame, how are we supposed to create a social stigma towards the bad players?
I realize that the author spent more effort in drafting the complaint than in entering the contest but isn't that a good thing? Many scams rely on people being unwilling to complain when they are nickle and dimed.
- larrys 14y ago"are complaining on HN to warn others about scammers and unsavory companies " And in the case of this particular issue we know nothing of the person lodging the complaint other than their karma score. Why is this even to be taken on face value anyway from someone with no contact info that has provided what amounts to little info other than: "This is the jpegmini contest that I entered to win a Nikon D5100 Camera. They pulled their pages down after the contest ended so I had to pull these from google cache. For the record, I blocked out all names and twitter handles aside from my own and jpegmini's. " Edit: "their karma score" (if you don't want to read their comments and make a judgement on their credibility of course which most won't have the time to do).
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- massarog 14y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220637 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220637