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That's not how spammers work. There is this profile with thousands and there are still hundreds of spam profiles with just a handful of packages yet. If you let them grow unchecked, they grow, exponentially. The broken Windows theory fits well here

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I am not sure I am following that this fits the broken window fallacy? That fallacy is 'if I break/destroy something I create value on other things'. I am actually curious how spamming a bunch of accounts with junk in them would fit that? Oh no doubt it is creating negative value but nothing is destroyed to do that. 'Broken window' is probably not the right pattern here? I can think of a couple of other terms that fit better but still do not seem right.

I think you are making a confusion about what's the broken windows theory, I suggest reading about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

The other commenter was actually just mixing it up with the broken windows fallacy[0]. Funnily enough, it's a common enough confusion that both of the pages reference each other at the top of the page.

>This article is about the economic parable. For the criminological theory, see Broken windows theory.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

ah I see my mistake.

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