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0 pointsLightHugger1y ago0 comments

Presumably the point is that the user (or bot) wants to access the content, a connection would have to complete the load successfully to do what they came for. if they just drop it instantly then that's a bot turned away.

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mike_hearn1y ago

But you don't want to throw an arbitrary five second delay into login for every good user, they hate that sort of thing whereas the bot doesn't care.

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0 pointsLightHugger1y ago0 comments

Presumably the point is that the user (or bot) wants to access the content, a connection would have to complete the load successfully to do what they came for. if they just drop it instantly then that's a bot turned away.

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mike_hearn1y ago

But you don't want to throw an arbitrary five second delay into login for every good user, they hate that sort of thing whereas the bot doesn't care.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse