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by pooriaazimi
5119 days ago
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Completely agree. It bit me once: I submitted a link to a free epub book (hosted on GitHub), titled Backbone.js Fundamentals [free ebook, epub]
(here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831954)it surprisingly made it to the front page (250 votes), but soon a mod changed the title to Backbone.js Fundamentals
So, a lot of unsuspecting visitors (my guess is about 25000 - my personal experience tells me most front page links get 100x visits more than their votes) clicked on this link, expecting to see a web page but end up downloading a random epub. Very soon the poor guy's GitHub account was suspended temporarily due to excessive bandwidth usage.I felt very bad and angry at the time. |
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