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by unethical_ban 3382 days ago
The site itself would have to be attempting to detect and flag networks of users, and take some kind of action.
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Sure, but I think that is actually a very difficult problem: how do we determine whether a comment is being sincere or not? Furthermore, assuming we had a foolproof method to do this, would the site have enough funds to use it routinely and ethically? I think this is the problem we're seeing now with a large number of tech companies.