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jstarfish
on Dec 7, 2023
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Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in gen...
> For instance, it might have checked that he was in an unsupported region first, before making him jump through hoops.
Why would they do that?
Not
doing it inflates their registration count.
NoMoreNicksLeft
on Dec 7, 2023
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Sure, but so does the increment operator. If they're going to lie to themselves, they should take the laziest approach to that. High effort self-deception is just bad form.
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Why would they do that?
Not doing it inflates their registration count.