We've currently got a spambot talking about making $12k a month while working only 11 hours a week. The bot doesn't realize that we're trying to do even more than that for everybody. We're an obscure and fairly custom website so I'm wondering how it even got on here.

Did somebody have to program it just for Hexbear? Is it a Lemmy spambot that found our site? Are spambots now sophisticated enough to sign up to a site like ours without custom programming? Did anybody spend human effort to spam our site? I've realized I don't know much about how spambots work and would love to hear from somebody who does if we've got somebody like that here.

As for a solution, we could make our own CAPTCHA system that displays historical communist leaders and you have to select the ones that were revisionists.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I will admit you have a point there. I suppose my worry is just how we prioritize things. Focusing only on growth like commercial sites is like burning through a lamp wick faster to get more light. Sure, you got more light, but now you’ve sacrificed a bunch of wick because you didn’t give the fuel a chance to burn off. There needs to be a middle ground of slow burn so we can let users shine on their own, I think.

    I agree, but right now the alternative is the status quo which is literally doing nothing, which is achieving nothing other than maintaining the equilibrium. My goal is revolution and I'll end up on other sites that are pursuing growth to achieve greater influence and more socialists to achieve that instead of sites that exist purely to entertain themselves and their clique of people that actively do not want to grow because they're worried it might hurt the vibe. I agree there's a balance to be found between the two, right now Hex isn't at it.