Or, someone decided to join, copy and paste some content with a picture of Jupiter and get lucky with people up voting that content without reading fully that what he did was essentially spam. We must note that a LOT of people using Snapzu are not content creators, they are simply people surfing the site, checking out the content and placing votes. It happens a lot, it happens everywhere, and the best we can do is locate the "spam" and remove it. At this point, I would have done exactly that, but realized that there is a conversation here worth getting to the end of.
That may not be so, exactly. It could be that these are proof-of-concept attacks by vote manipulating services. Also, the essay-writing fraud may be the guise for a scam in which academic cheats are the perfect marks, because what? — Are they going to go to law enforcement because they were cheated by their accomplices in fraud? We can't, at this point, rule out that garbage is being systematically poured through Snapzu in order to see who's paying any goddamn attention. For all we know, we could be the guinea pigs in a test that will determine quantitively our ability to recognize rubbish.
As if votes were being tallied up by unseeing eyes staring blankly into the void? But that would mean the value of any single vote any of us had ever gotten was cheapened immeasurably! Even the best things we'd ever done would, in vote score terms, be no more meaningful than pinball scores with all those extra digits piled on. I hate that shitposting shitlords like this rack up votes. They debase our hoards of meaningless internet points.
And really, that is why I am here. I choose to be with nice people, even if we don't agree, we can laugh at disagreements, and that is so hard to find.
In mid-July, at four in the morning on a Thursday in British Columbia, with mortgages to pay and offspring now off springing, we should probably more be concerned if they find this quickly.
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