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>Why can't they just use something like a proof-of-work mechanism to combat spam? I don't believe there is a level of work that one could do that would both be
by nemothekid 6y ago
>Why can't they just use something like a proof-of-work mechanism to combat spam?
I don't believe there is a level of work that one could do that would both be too expensive for scammers and not grind your battery to a halt.
- superkuh 6y agoThis actually played out on the reddit-alike notabug.io (federated all js thing with proof of work anonymous voting). What happened was a couple users had the programming skill to write better than JS could ever be voting bots and then they controlled the "front page" and only looking at all posts by 'new' worked. This of course meant the anti-spam proof of work voting was not working and so useless.