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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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