Daily Bard Digest 2024-07-05

At 2024-07-06T00:25:16+00:00 on /r/ModSupport with a score of 2 points:

Reddit has open registration, and has always had open registration; a few years ago they started to rely on Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft to solve the "CAPTCHA" problem of fending off automated account creation.

Of those, only Apple really "solved" that problem, primarily by controlling what can run on their devices, which devices act as physical tokens.

A lot of adult content subreddits, as soon as 3-4 years ago, started putting in automod rules to filter or remove any comments or posts from a username that matched the pattern of a Reddit-suggested automatically generated wordworddigits username. Porn / s*x services spammers had cracked CAPTCHA on Reddit and were churning out masses of sockpuppets even then.