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0 pointsdawnbreez10y ago0 comments

At that point, the whole conflict has become ridiculous. Who has the time to create a bot that automates creating accounts to spam, say, the N-word?

That's not even accounting for captchas.

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> Who has the time to create a bot that automates creating accounts to spam, say, the N-word?

Quite a few people apparently, and you only need one to do that and make it available to everyone else.

Fair point.

This is getting into Poe's Law territory.

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0 pointsdawnbreez10y ago0 comments

At that point, the whole conflict has become ridiculous. Who has the time to create a bot that automates creating accounts to spam, say, the N-word?

That's not even accounting for captchas.

> Who has the time to create a bot that automates creating accounts to spam, say, the N-word?

Quite a few people apparently, and you only need one to do that and make it available to everyone else.

Fair point.

This is getting into Poe's Law territory.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse