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Because you have an initial user who invited the bots. The whole invite tree of this user can cull all invites given by the user who added bots.
by dehsge 6mo ago
Because you have an initial user who invited the bots. The whole invite tree of this user can cull all invites given by the user who added bots.
- array_key_first 6mo agoYes but I think bots can be very good, and many people have legitimate online-only relationships. It gets hairy quickly, with real users getting culled and bots slipping through. Also, if the bots are smart, they'll add real people too and take them down with them.
- dehsge 6mo agoYeah that’s the trade off of this implementation. Lobste.rs already uses this implementation https://lobste.rs/about#invitations https://lobste.rs/about#invitations The comments are considerably better. I’m not even a member but get more out of reading those comments than hn, and I’ve worked at multiple YC’s. This place is not what it used to be.