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Ask HN: Submit via /submit, or via bookmarklet?
Just curious how people submit article. Other than an "Ask HN:" type of post (like this one), everything I submit is done via the bookmarklet.
The backthought to my question is that if bookmarklet use is predominant, a way to cut down on spam/junk submissions would be to not allow submissions with links to be posted any other way.
- mooism2 18y agoThe spammers would switch to submitting via the bookmarklet, surely? (If they don't already.)
- brk 18y agoMy guess is that they wouldn't. Too difficult to automate easily, as it requires actually reading something on the site, grabbing the bookmarklet, etc. In my experience a lot of these types of submissions are highly automated. Break the automation even slightly and the junk submissions drop significantly.