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That's a very cool idea. An unintended side-effect of rockets could be that it reduces the load on reddit's server. My theory is that there are N bots that rely
by rtheunissen 11y ago
That's a very cool idea. An unintended side-effect of rockets could be that it reduces the load on reddit's server. My theory is that there are N bots that rely on monitoring new content, and they're all polling for the same data. If those bots just hook into something like this, that's N less requests per second sent to reddit.com.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThere's of course a side effect of data being untrusted. While an individual couldn't game this if the system would depend on multiple sources, an organized group (like 4chan) could likely make the system show whatever they want.
- rtheunissen 11y agoHow might they achieve that?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI was referring to MasterScrat's idea of a browser extension. In that case, it's only a matter of saturating the service with crafted data, something that 4chan excels at doing.