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by koakuma-chan 405 days ago
No benefit, this appears to be a student's pet project. The submitter has 179k karma and they aren't this framework's author. Either the submitter is unfamiliar with Rust and mistakenly thought this is a real deal or there's some kind of karma abuse/farming going on.
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steveklabnik 404 days ago
This was posted by its author to /r/rust and then submitted here by someone because if a post does well over there, it often does well over here. That’s not “karma abuse”.
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rc00 404 days ago
> This was posted by its author to /r/rust and then submitted here by someone because if a post does well over there, it often does well over here. That’s not “karma abuse”.

Except the submitter account in question is actually automating submissions from what looks like Lobsters (based on the timing and posting history). The account owner only seems to post non-automated comments to spam their product. This looks an awful lot like abuse. Or is abuse okay when you perceive it to be beneficial to Rust propaganda?

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steveklabnik 404 days ago
> Or is abuse okay

I just don’t care about karma that much. The first 500 is the only that matters. I find it hard to say that submitting a story that people found valuable is “abuse.”

> when you perceive it to be beneficial to Rust propaganda?

I don’t think this project has a particularly good architecture, nor do I agree with its claims about async rust. I didn’t upvote this submission.

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rc00 404 days ago
> and then submitted here by someone

> I just don’t care about karma that much. The first 500 is the only that matters. I find it hard to say that submitting a story that people found valuable is “abuse.”

The submitting account is automated and mostly non-deterministic. Forget the fake internet points and focus on the fact that there are accounts on this site that mostly exist to spam. Isn't the value of this site that humans curate what is posted? Or is automating submissions not a form of abuse? Good to know where your ethics are.

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steveklabnik 404 days ago
> Isn't the value of this site that humans curate what is posted?

The value of this site is that interesting things get posted. Them being from a human is not inherently required. I do think that it's more likely to be the case when it comes from a human, but that's secondary.

Also, I would argue that upvoting is more important to curation than submission.

> Or is automating submissions not a form of abuse?

I do not believe it is inherently a form of abuse. The site guidelines do not prohibit automatic submissions, for example. If they did, then yeah, I'd say it's not a good thing to do.

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