What Reddit features do you not want kbin to have?
What Reddit features do you not want kbin to have?
in what ways do you think kbin should strive to be different from Reddit?
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Auto generated usernames
They make it easier to see bots, at least.
Yes and no. Bots by their nature fall into patternswhich is what makes them easy to identify. But auto generated uns actually make it much easier and faster to create new accounts. You can all but script account creation and captcha becomes less effective every time we use them for sites that use the data to make their ai better.
Yes the auto names can make it easier to spot off a boy, but it's not a dead give away.
6 of 1 half a dozen of the other
Randomly generating names is trivial to implement. I don't think that Reddit suggesting a name itself really saves the spammers much work.
You're not wrong. But ithat's why I said 6 of 1. Neither option really discourages bots or recognizing bots, but I do take space in the fact that one creates a slight inconvenience, even if it just means 1 less account every week because another bot already took that randomly generated string of letters and numbers.