The 'free eth' business is booming cuz twitter is too inept to ban domains that spam its site and ppl are too stupid to know better.

https://medium.com/@robertyusert/there-are-free-ethreum-spam...

Buying followers is a good idea actually. There are fewer restrictions on Twitter accounts that have a lot of followers.

It's not because your engagement/user goes down (unless you now also start paying for fake engagement).

Not sure how this got to the front page. This is not new information or even that interesting.

Literally, hundreds of articles about this exact same thing

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

another brand new site up-voted to the font page...created in 2017 and only 8 very sparse articles

erikrood.com

Sigh...another fake copycat news site created in 2017. Flagged

for example: “Atherosclerosis and hair greying occur through similar biological pathways and the incidence of both increases with age,” said Dr Samuel. “

https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CAtherosclerosis+and...

this is a low-quality submission of a site that was created just a month ago and filled with affiliate links.

stop spam and automated sign-ups

Those things will find their way out… but the nuisance for common legitimate well-behaving users will be kept, likely.

I think it's safe to say people have noticed

IMHO, it would have been solved sooner had more people been working on it. I think only 5 or so people had or were working on it?

One either loves Chesterton or is bored by him. But in any case, this was very much typical of how Chesterton wrote.

If you are tired of Chesterton, you are tired of life.

Agreed! I loved the article.

Yes. I was very impressed with the style. Though Ceglowski is very charitable with his money, if not with his analysis of AI risk.

Too many scripts and plugins. A typical website has hundreds of pages worth of JavaScript that must be rendered