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by tmpz22 454 days ago
Yeah don’t get me wrong I believe raising the burden of extraction is an effective strategy I just think it’s been solved at scale ie voting rings and astro turfing operations on Reddit - and at the nation state level I’d just bribe or extort the mods and admins directly (or the IT person to dump the database).
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That's entirely possible, especially if the site is small and not run by people with access to resources like physical security, legal etc.