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by solardev 619 days ago
On one hand, that's a fair point (absolutely agreed on the 80/20 stuff). But on the other hand, if some of your accounts are distinct humans and the others are bots... how do you (as the website operator) tell which is which?

I guess I assumed that if you wanted only "distinct human accounts", you would also want to exclude bot-generated ones, but maybe not.

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usually when an OP is asking about 1-1 accounts, it's more of a free vs paid thing and they care less if the account is using automation (bots) than abusing free offerings. This is certainly viewed as more important with the AI hype cycle, and it costing more to run while also almost requiring a free tier

In my experience, it's not worth worrying about until you have users, and if you have this problem, it's a good sign and you'll have the resources to better deal with it by then

Ah, I see, that makes sense!
yea, this is how I'm interpreting OP's post, they would need to add more context to get better answers