Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by RUTHLESS_RUFUS on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @12:24PM
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I cannot wait to allow a bazillion fake Twitter and FB accounts from the Eastern Bloc countries to pour into my website and bigly MAGA. Thanks, social sign-on!
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Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by michaelmior on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:52PM
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What's stopping people from creating fake accounts without social logins?
Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by RUTHLESS_RUFUS on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @02:01PM
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Administrators and community moderation who pay attention to their own access logs rather than ambiguous Facebook Review Teams who look the other way.
Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by tudorconstantin on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:22PM
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It's much easier for a spammer to get through your own implementation of spam filtering than through Facebook's or Google's.
Do you think you can implement automatic ip black listing, phone confirmation and better spammy account categorizers based on common spam signals than the big players, who have dedicated research teams working on this? I know I can't and even if I could, I'd rather spend my dev time on tasks related to the core business.
Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by michaelmior on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @02:53PM
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There's nothing stopping admins or mods from policing people who happen to use social login.
Re:Show HN: OAuth microservice for FB, Twitter, etc.
by RUTHLESS_RUFUS on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @02:55PM
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Except that they don't.
Account identity and authentication being outsourced to Facebook means your community maintainers don't get to notice the fact that those 100 MAGA-spouting dimwits are from Romania. They don't get that information in the first place.