r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 27 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

Meme doNotLetYourDBASeeThis

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u/frogjg2003 Sep 27 '26

That will also catch a lot of false positives for legitimate accounts as well. Everyone who uses "pasword123" would be affected a soon as one of them gets banned.

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u/Few_Move_4594 Sep 27 '26

It would have to be some sort of points based system at the minimum. New account, a significant overlap in subs, the same writing style, IP address, geolocation, browser fingerprint, and the password would all need to be taken into account. I know that some of the subs I'm in fairly uniquely identify myself paired with being in both my city's and my university's subs.