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> it's pretty easy to detect like 90% of bot users How to tell someone’s never worked on anti-abuse at scale
by saddlerustle 5y ago
> it's pretty easy to detect like 90% of bot users
How to tell someone’s never worked on anti-abuse at scale
- liquidise 5y agoThat's unfair. I was in charge of anti-abuse for a dating site with millions of users and my gut reaction was "just 90%?". The problem with anti-abuse at scale isn't catching the 90-99%. It is the remaining 1%. Have 10M abuse accounts with a 99% success rate and you are left with 100k spam accounts. That, and making sure you aren't catching too many innocent customers in your efforts.
- specialist 5y agoWhy is it hard? I have some experience with demographic databases. I take it as a given that Facebook, NSA, whomever, have uniquely identified every person, living and dead. I just don't understand how or why fake accounts are created. Smaller outfits like metafilter need some kind of gatekeeper. Like require nominal fee or scan of ID or verification photo.