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0 pointssgrove17y ago0 comments

It was an interesting manipulation of the system, but as pointed out it's a dangerous slope. A community based on trust will sour very quickly if a lot of these tricks pop up.

Sharing the trick is entirely reasonable: small hacks like this are something to be proud of, given that you've acted in a reasonable way (e.g. contacted the site and informed them before telling others, not actually using it game the system, etc.)

Could have gone that way. Didn't.