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		dtby on Aug 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: can a company do too much OSS? How would blood samples even help? We're talking about excluding content, not people. It's a certainty that the spam you can't define is the spam you can't catch. The "I know it when I see it" test doesn't scale.

moultano on Aug 26, 2010 [–]

That's the only way you're going to be able to ensure that everyone interacting with your site is a human. (It's preferable if you take a blood sample on every interaction, just in case.)

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