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On Sat, 2020-05-23 at 09:54 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 22-05-2020 21:58:54 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Let's put it like this. This thing starts working. Package X is |
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> > broken, and we see that almost nobody is using it. We remove that |
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> > package. Now somebody is angry. He submits a lot of fake data to |
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> > render the service useless so that we don't make any future decisions |
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> > based on it. |
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> I'm affraid that has a heroic flair to me. The service should never be |
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> used for decisions like that, because it's a biased sample at most. |
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> Doing stuff like this simply destroys the soul of the distribution. |
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> I hope this isn't one of your genuine objectives with the service. If |
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> it is, I can see why you fear spam so much. |
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What it is is one thing, what an angry user perceives it to be is |
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another. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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