[consumer451]

I just want to make sure I'm not missing something:

Would there be a reason to do this other than to eat a competitor's quota or just cause someone trouble?

The malicious actor would not benefit in any other way, correct? They would not actually get the submitted data…

[bdcravens]

Maybe not from a single spammer, but there are so many spam bots that any form like this you put on the web will be hit by a flood of bots

[consumer451]

Agreed.

It’s taken me a couple days to put it into words, but the important thing for me was a product lesson.

The lesson was that it’s possible to lower friction to this point, build or buy an anti/bot/spam system and still have margin.

[tendencydriven]

Yeah there would be absolutely no benefit to doing this other than just to be a nuisance.

[stanmancan]

Nope, there would be zero benefit other than to try to cause a bit of trouble.