It's kind of fascinating that we've taken the lowest-bandwidth way of proving agency and effort - writing - and made it tremendously more labor-intensive to ded

It's kind of fascinating that we've taken the lowest-bandwidth way of proving agency and effort - writing - and made it tremendously more labor-intensive to deduce whether any agency or effort were involved at all. I think the knock-on effects are probably huge - not only are the reporter and the maintainer both wasting time here that could be better spent on something useful, but the whole bug-bounty-crowdsourced-CVE process is now compromised by a lower signal-to-noise ratio and the probable outcome of raising barriers to submission as a means of dealing with the spam, meaning fewer bugs discovered and fixed, more security vulnerabilities, and everything that results from that. The same dynamic is at play in other sectors, meaning we find ourselves increasingly unable to assign any trust to product reviews, court filings, recipes, how-to guides, medical advice, and so forth. One of the promises of the internet was the rapid expansion of content through democratization of publishing, but I think we're witnessing the gutting of any benefit that had left.