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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by vntok on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:04PM (#23362054)
> that person can go through the process themselves to pass the arbitration, then set the bot running again.

That is not scalable, which is exactly the point.

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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by naasking on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:16PM (#23362168)
It's far more scalable than the arbitration process itself. Arbitration will never win such an arms race.
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