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Re:View Counting at Reddit by sanswork on Saturday May 27, 2017 @05:27PM (#14432051)
The point isn't to prevent them which is near on impossible but to get them to waste enough resources on non-visible actions regularly enough that it isn't economically viable to continue trying to spam the site.
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Re:View Counting at Reddit by joombaga on Saturday May 27, 2017 @10:57PM (#14432915)
Even so, I think GP's point is still valid in that it doesn't achieve that desired effect, but of course Reddit has those stats and I do not.
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