[craftinator]

I was annoyed by the "traps" item as well, especially given some of the other shite advice in the article... However, after some thought, I can see some rationals behind this (even if the author didn't see the same way).

1) Makes it really easy to filter out a large portion of bot applications.

2) Filter out applicants who application spamming, similar to the above bothavior.

3) Filter out applicants who don't read posts or instructions thoroughly. For some types of work this would be a daft filter, but I do actually want my devs to be hungry for minutiae, especially with life-altering decision making.