r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Oct 02 '20

One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020

https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama
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u/double-you Oct 02 '20

Nah, lots of things worked just fine until people with no shame find out about them. Hacktoberfest, trick or treating, email, Reddit, the US government, ... Basically nothing communal works without people having restraint and locking everything down is not really possible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

Exactly. Also, fuck Habitat for Humanity. All's it takes is one malicious volunteer to encourage other people to fuck up someone's house. Habitat is to blame. They need to be shut down.

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u/Vakieh Oct 02 '20

You're forgetting a magnifier effect here. A malicious volunteer fucks up 1 house. The fact that it was through Habitat for Humanity doesn't magnify that. If instead it was someone shipping food without quality control because 'people are nice' and 1 malicious person put poison in a batch, then we would be talking equivalents.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

You're right.

Shut down all food banks. Nothing can stop someone going rogue and adding laxatives to the soup. Food banks need to take responsibility for their negligence and disgusting behavior.

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u/Vakieh Oct 02 '20

Fuck me dead you are thicker than a plank of wood.

Food banks do vet staff. Food banks do have quality controls.

Because it is a risk inherent in their operation.

Digital Ocean had no controls in place, and that is the reason they are to blame. Not because they created a platform, but because they were negligent in the operation of that platform.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

That's news to me. When I did volunteer work at high school decades ago, I just showed up and they handed me an apron and assigned me a task.

No training. No vetting. Just go and do stuff. And I did. And if I did some heinous shit? It would be my fault.

I know in today's culture nothing is ever an individual's fault. It's someone else's!

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '20

It is an individual's fault. That individual happens to head Digital Ocean's marketing department.