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SMO `shniki paid attention to Habr, ideas of self-organization under threat

Today, Maul offered widely known in narrow CEO'-moneymaker circles (officially, it is not he himself) who provides the following service: bringing the post to Habrahabr to the top , worth $ 50. Previously, similar services were found only for Digg.com and Propeller.

I would like to discuss this relevant topic. It should be said that this topic is in no way an advertisement for this service and offer it to any newcomer on the SE forum or Mastertok, one could pass by, but in this case, the popularity of the Maula blog does not allow it.

My personal attitude as a member of a habrasoobschestva to this service is clearly negative, because such articles will distort the social assessment of the interestingness of the materials. This may affect the interestingness of the site for the simple reader much more than the actions of SEO's influence the search results, if only for the reason that the search results remain relevant to the query, just the output is maximally commercialized. Immediately on the face not only the commercialization of materials, but also a decrease in their interestingness due to the killing of the social selection effect on interestingness and relevance, which is not found in search engines (Yes, search engines have dozens and hundreds of criteria for building issuance, but there are not too many social ones, and a person who enters the word “conditioner” into a search engine wants to buy it rather than read the article on Wikipedia about the invention and testing of this unit).
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On the other hand, to be honest, as a person who is interested in SMO and as the owner of some sites, I may be interested in such a service as a customer.

In this regard, I wanted to find out the opinion of the habrasoobshchestvo, as well as the administration on this issue. Does the service violate Habr's rules? And by chance, do I not violate them personally, recklessly giving a link to it? The rules of the site about this does not say anything, but there was no precedent before. And somehow complement the rules for sure worth it. If voting is carried out through virtuals, it is vital to calculate and ban the grid of accounts for the service. But, if the vote goes on without using virtuals, to prohibit a group of individuals from receiving monetary remuneration for voting, the administration is hardly able to. And to calculate them, if it is active users who vote not only for money, is very unrealistic.

PS There is also raising karma. Only it is not clear who and why this may be needed.

UPD. Shoohurt asked to report “a thread of the following type: The next“ Terrible Giant Botset ”was exposed and covered up. Nothing interesting. Disagree. "
It is a pity, without details, but take it on faith and close the topic. I apologize to Maul that his karma has suffered as a result of my fasting.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/48975/


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