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View submission: Reddit Security Report -- February 26, 2019
To be clear, nearly all of these posts were caught in real-time. So while we don't necessarily have an explicit rate limit that prevents people from trying to post large volumes, that doesn't mean that the posts (or comments) actually end up on the platform. We try to be very transparent about the volumes.
Comment by svc518 at 26/02/2020 at 20:23 UTC
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Neat. Is the bulk of the site still written in Python? I'm mostly curious about the real-time detection...but if I'm gonna pry, I'm gonna *pry*.
Comment by garyp714 at 27/02/2020 at 16:16 UTC
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Back in your 2016 election post mortem about the starting points subreddits for content manipulation from outside entities (Russia, etc) you specifically highlighted subs that were used to disseminate the lied and fake news. One of those was r/conspiracy
And here we are again and I'm seeing the exact same thing happen there all over again and it stems from the top moderator who besides pushing anti-vax and coronavirus info, he's purging thousands of accounts and paving the way for it to happen all over again.
I don't know who to tell. Just thought someone should know.
Comment by BaneWilliams at 26/02/2020 at 19:52 UTC
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Is it a safe hypothesis that even if you did rate limit, it would only cause more accounts to be made? That generally was my experience when we tried rate limiting solutions on other platforms... worked for the non technically savvy bad actors, but was trivial to bypass for the worst offenders.