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Re:What's up with HN? by eli on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:47AM (#5362130)
I'm consistently impressed by how many bots are smart enough to crawl the web and submit forms and even evade some captchas... but are still too dumb to realize that rapidly trying to submit comment spam to my search form isn't doing anyone any good.
Re:What's up with HN? by mdaniel on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:40PM (#5366464)
IMHO, they fail for the same reason most software does: failure to check return values.

Assuming the happy path is the road to ruin, even for spammers.