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You would still need to force the users through each page. Fast-reading bad actor accounts can be flagged as abusers through pattern recognition. Since a subsc
by bduerst 11y ago
You would still need to force the users through each page.
Fast-reading bad actor accounts can be flagged as abusers through pattern recognition. Since a subscription is necessary, creating numerous accounts to game the system becomes expensive fast.
- imaginenore 11y agoThey don't have to be fast-reading. They can just create a fake log, and send it to the mothership after an appropriate period of time. Still, I will agree that that will make scammers' lives harder.
- bduerst 11y agoSince only paid accounts are used in revenue attribution, faking logs for your own accounts would never work.
- VLM 11y agoThis is kind of rough for technical or reference-ish books. Perfectly OK for fiction... well, except for anthologies and collections (HAL 9000 says I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you skip past the other Arthur C Clarke stories in this anthology, you'll have to read all the stories in order, at an acceptably slow speed) I subscribe to F+SF and it would annoy me if I were technically prevented from skipping the end of stories that don't resonate with me.
- bduerst 11y agoSorry, I meant the abusers would need to force their fraudulent user accounts through each page. Normal people who don't find a book engaging can still skip the end, just that they'll (justifiably) be worth less to the author.