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So you get a bit richer for less effort... but how do you think moderating legions of spam posts affects the lives of independent website owners, who just want
by HeckFeck 2y ago
So you get a bit richer for less effort... but how do you think moderating legions of spam posts affects the lives of independent website owners, who just want to create communities around the things they love?
Or indeed the users, who have to wade through trash invading their threads?
Or other legitimate users, who now have to answer captchas from CloudFlare just to access their favourite websites?
Ultimately this is a parasitical element, choking the internet. It will kill the things it profits from. Many will give up running these sites, you walk away with your $100k, and no one can ever do it again... you've not created anything of value, but destroyed it.
- Jerrrry 2y agoHard to think anyone who can't solve a captcha is something other than a parasite. Parasites can solve captchas, people with accessibility issues and the poorest of people are the one being locked out.
- lostlogin 2y agoIt isn’t just those with accessibility problems that get stuck. Some are stupidly difficult- I’ve given up on one in recent times. Maybe my disability is CAPTCHA blindness.
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- marcosdumay 2y agoCaptchas are not only for stopping people with disabilities anymore. They also stop people using non-approved browsers, people trying to stay anonymous, people coming from the wrong geographic areas...
- TZubiri 2y agoIf the AI has access to a credit card, but Mgulu from Nigeria doesn't, then the system doing the filtering might evolve to filter out the 'undesirable' rather than the non human.
- idiotsecant 2y agoYes, people often do unsavory things for money. Is the point you're making that they shouldn't do bad things. Like, what are we even talking about here? The lesson here is that systems that rely on humans to do the 'moral' thing and fail otherwise are bad systems.
- gosub100 2y agoHN moderates spam without the use of AI-crackable "prove you're a human" bs
- jrflowers 2y ago> So you get a bit richer for less effort If $150k/year is “a bit richer” for you you could simply offer to pay that poster that much in exchange for stopping.
- gopher_space 2y agoLet us know who you work for and I'm sure we could find a few stones to throw your way.
- kristopolous 2y agoI had no idea I'd see so many people rising in defense of bots and scammers.
- b___________ 2y agoA lot of people on this website are directly responsible for making botting and scamming easier to pull off. It's kind of necessary for them to find justifications for them so they can sleep soundly.
- kristopolous 2y agoHn is like that sometimes. You read a thread and think "well I guess I'm alone on what I think is a perfectly reasonable position" The other one that comes to mind is anacap, which I view as fringe. I read the comment threads sometimes and it leaves me with the impression that I'm the only one that thinks Von Mises and Rothbard are a bit out there.
- TZubiri 2y agoThis sounds so out of touch, you are comparing the livelihood of a person with the quality of a meme imageboard.