alt Hacker NewsThree minutes after kickbacks were announced there would be a flurry of new repos being created with bots repeatedly scraping them just to get those kickbacks.
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sph • today at 4:38 PM
Also known as the Cobra effect
Three minutes after kickbacks were announced there would be a flurry of new repos being created with bots repeatedly scraping them just to get those kickbacks.
Also known as the Cobra effect
Presumably whoever is doing the scraping would need to pay, to get rate limits conducive to scraping.