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If you're willing to cheat to make your product seem more liked than it is, what else are you willing to cheat at to get your paycheck?
by diminoten 14y ago
If you're willing to cheat to make your product seem more liked than it is, what else are you willing to cheat at to get your paycheck?
- j_s 14y agoPart of recognizing that there is a line between what is acceptable or not in biz-dev has to be an understanding that other people will draw that line in other places... it's human nature. Complaining about this is like complaining that people cut you off in traffic, it rains sometimes, or anonymity encourages misbehavior. If you believe strongly enough in how you do what you do, stay busy doing it! There is a long and storied history of sites 'cheating' for some definition of cheating... • collecting emails for signups for features (or entire sites) that don't exist yet http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4117440 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4117440 • reddit faking a bunch of posts getting started http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2624086 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2624086 • 9gag re-watermarking content from elsewhere http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_machine_explained/ http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_mac...