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by Pooge 555 days ago
Makes me think of the "cobra effect", like the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre.[1]

Set arbitrary metrics like download count -> bad actors make bots to download their package -> they profit while the registry suffers from very heavy load.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre