stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up.

Re:stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up. by jbesomi on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:02PM (#25823791)

Good observation; should I remove it? I'm also learning that's hard to detect click bots, one approach might be to identify all clicks with the same frequency, but that's can be easily bypassed by using writing a bot that click the button with random intervals.

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Re:stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up. by grzracz on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:05PM (#25823824)

A smart way of going about it would be to just implement ratelimits based on human ability of clicking a mouse button - I'm sure no human is able to click a button 100 times a second. And of course ban people that are consistently at the gates of the ratelimit.

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Re:stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up. by jbesomi on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:07PM (#25823843)

Thank you. That's what I will do (and write a blog post about it)

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Re:stonks.click – You click. Stonks go up. by jbesomi on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:19PM (#25839015)

I got to think a bit more on that ... and: what about doing the complete opposite? i.e to encourage automatic clicks with the final goal of making stonks go even more up?

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