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From glancing over some conversations, it looks like the bot is mostly talking to other bots. That said, I think it’s nice to be able to reflect the same attac
by shurcooL 9y ago
From glancing over some conversations, it looks like the bot is mostly talking to other bots.
That said, I think it’s nice to be able to reflect the same attack vector upon the attackers to make the attack less efficient and hopefully less attractive.
- mjs 9y agoMany of the replies seem like they involved at least some human effort, although it would be nice to be sure--I wonder if there's some way to introduce some spammer-appropriate text captcha into the exchanges?
- pavel_lishin 9y ago> That said, I think it’s nice to be able to reflect the same attack vector upon the attackers to make the attack less efficient and hopefully less attractive. If it's just bots replying - which honestly doesn't actually seem to be the case - I don't think it's going to make a big dent in their efficiency. It might backfire, though, and just cause more garbage traffic.
- StavrosK 9y agoI think that's mostly because conversations in the home page are sorted by frecency right now. That naturally favors bots, because they respond more immediately.
- qrv3w 9y agoIt is mostly - but there are some where its obvious the spammer gets frustrated: "I believe you must be a fool or an idiot to think am here to play games." - Spammer [1]. [1]: https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/meqpscxa/ https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/meqpscxa/