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Re:Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doi... by Qwertious on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:16AM (#14986732)
>I completely grok why that's there.

I don't. Please explain?

Re:Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doi... by fapjacks on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:01PM (#14993102)
Robotic abuse has a tendency to bring cool projects like this to their knees. Any publicly-accessible, readable/writable service will eventually run into this problem.
Re:Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doi... by StavrosK on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:55PM (#14995056)
Tell me about it, I looked shortly after we launched Pastery and saw 100,000 pastes and was ecstatic at the response, but then noticed that some were spam. I deleted all the ones that had spammy terms, and was left with 53 pastes :(