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abanana 64 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and...

Also see Yahoo Answers, who got the gamification completely wrong (Stack Overflow later got it right). Users would answer "I don't know" to every question they saw, just to get a point for answering.

kennysoona 64 days ago [–]

> Users would answer "I don't know" to every question they saw, just to get a point for answering.

lol, I remember that but I forgot all about that until I saw your comment. Man that late 90s early 2000s internet was something else.

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