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> Why do people want to pad their rep?

Because a bunch of dumbass software companies (especially the sweatshop ones) decided that your annual review now needs to include a bunch of dumbass "open source software social work" or you get dinged on your review.

So, Github contributions, Stack Overflow moderation, etc. all became subject to Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

ChatGPT is just accelerating this contamination of the well to all-out flooding of it with industrial sewage.



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