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You realize there’s no captchas or fingerprinting on this site right?

• dmoy 5y ago
  This 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 ago
    I 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.
    • marcinzm 5y ago
      Reddit does require a captcha and has for a long time. edit: They have for at least the last 6 years based on online questions. Long before the new design.
      • luffapi 5y ago
        I see you are correct. They did not used to though.