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You need to make it so people can upload kitten pictures; and then people can vote on the kitten pictures; and then the pictures that are served cycle through the top [10].

Obviously, that could result in nefarious activities... but it would be cool if it could work.

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Sadly the moment you let random people upload anything on the internet, you are no longer doing what it was you thought you were doing, and you are now dealing with all of the consequences of letting random people upload images to your application.

Years ago I abandoned a simple recipe creator/organizer side project when I started imagining what photos people would upload and what I would have to do about it.

No, absolutely not. That's like saying sed, awk, grep need more features. These are all specific tools. They do a job reliably and fast. Keep your bloat out of my tools. Please. thank you. Not everything in the world needs Social.

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