[gtsop]

"we" is another word for "the people building the systems living on the web"

Once, "we" come up with the answer we are going to build based on the newly defined assumptions.

Here is what critically re-examining everything means: Do i really need to have a comment section? And if I do, shall I be the one responsible for managing it's technical infrastructure? The answer could be to use an off-the-shelf solution in your particular story. When you pivot to the side of the off-the-shelf solution developers who actually needs to do the spam filtering, then answers may differ, as will assumptions.

Edit: What are your thoughts of the mechanism hacker news have used to reduce bot comments?