Ofc, but you'd rather your work get seen than not seen
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it’s not obvious to me.
maybe you could make a statistical argument with data saying it drives sales or something. i can understand that
I really try my best to make decisions grounded in first principles, so on that ground i wouldn’t drink the punch with the turd floating in it, no matter how sweet
if my work is good, and i promote it, and others like it and it spreads, that’s cream floating to the top organically
paying for some astro turfing PR campaign forces anything to the top synthetically, so even if ur work gets traction, you don’t actually have any true measure of its quality imo
I really could care less about the bot interactions as your talking about, but those both interactions game the algorithm so all the real people are more likely to see it