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user24 on Sept 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tarsnap logo contest

Why? Because money is evil? Because True Hackers don't "sell out"?

And so what if the 'wrong kind of people' start submitting designs. I bet the contest runners would be happier with an arsehole submitting a fantastic logo, than a lovely person submitting a crap one.

huhtenberg on Sept 28, 2013 [–]

It's one thing to motivate people with a challenge and another is to prey on their need for the money. For me, personally, it's border-line unethical.

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