u/gajus0

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PSA Be skeptical of projects that appear out of nowhere

Was surprised to keep seeing the same project appear again and again on my feed. I saw a comment calling out the OP for the same thing, which led to searching their (hidden) post history, which reveals a long tail of the same project getting posted again and again, and somehow always receiving upvotes and positives comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects/comments/1thobk4/comment/omp3p6n/

I am not even against authors sharing their projects. But manipulating votes, adding fake comments, hiding post history, deleting posts that didn't land well (get called out for AI slop), etc. and then doubling down when called out, all of this is just disingenuous behavior that erodes the community's trust.

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u/gajus0 — 12 hours ago