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I wonder how (if?) they prevent NLP bots and influence campaigns.

• dang 4y ago
  NLP bots we're just in the early stages of dealing with. So far we're relying on community members to tell us about them (so if you think you're seeing that, please let us know! hn@ycombinator.com). Influence campaigns are an older problem, so we have many years' worth of defenses built up, although it's an arms race where the influencers also evolve. I'm aware that I didn't answer the "how" part of your question—the trouble is that there's no secure way to do it, so everything relies on a stack of ad hoc techniques that would stop working if we published them. It's basically the old "I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you" joke. But the answer to the "if" part is yes.