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by masklinn 3776 days ago
> Tell 'em you don't like X, block 'em, and boom, you're done.

Until X start automating the creation of new account and spamming your specifically because you blocked them of course.

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At that point, the whole conflict has become ridiculous. Who has the time to create a bot that automates creating accounts to spam, say, the N-word?

That's not even accounting for captchas.

> Who has the time to create a bot that automates creating accounts to spam, say, the N-word?

Quite a few people apparently, and you only need one to do that and make it available to everyone else.

Fair point.

This is getting into Poe's Law territory.