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Bots will then generate millions of fake users, upvote their own content and downvote all other competing content.
by marcinzm 5y ago
Bots will then generate millions of fake users, upvote their own content and downvote all other competing content.
- luffapi 5y agoYou realize there’s no captchas or fingerprinting on this site right?
- dmoy 5y agoThis is an absolutely tiny site. Things that work for small sites fall apart once you get 10~100 million+ people. Look, I help do the actual user moderation for a large (10m+) subreddit, and it is a god damn nightmare. Plus, on top of that, we have to do automated bot detection anyways, because otherwise it's just neverending bot spam.
- luffapi 5y agoI worked on a site with 200M active monthly users. No captchas. It’s totally doable. Reddit is actually a good example of having millions of users with no captcha. They “fixed” their problem with user moderation. You chose to become a moderator, so it must not be that much of a nightmare. EDIT: Reddit does have a captcha now. My guess is it came along with the other users hostile changes in the new design.