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Re:A Call for Google+ to Enable Posting via its API by mindcrime on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @05:41PM (#3855148)
"We don't want API-driven auto-junk filling our streams!"

Nobody does, but - again - we're talking about throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. Not everything posted via API is "junk."

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Re:A Call for Google+ to Enable Posting via its API by jamesbritt on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @04:42PM (#3860079)
Not everything posted via API is "junk."

True, but enough of it is to make it a problem. What could Google do to trap the noise but allow the signal? Rate limiting? Pattern matching against Twitter posts?

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