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Poor for stopping spam. It's pretty easy to write a little bot that just logs in to ycombinator on an active basis. Data would be good though.
by nowarninglabel 16y ago
Poor for stopping spam. It's pretty easy to write a little bot that just logs in to ycombinator on an active basis. Data would be good though.
- yesimahuman 16y agoSorry, I meant days since signup, not time since last login. I haven't see any data that suggests spammers are using old accounts, but I'm not sure.
- seancron 16y agoEven if spammers aren't using old accounts, if something like that was implemented, spammers would just add sleep( n * 86400 ) to their bots. Once those n days were up, there would be yet another wave of spam.