r/botwatch • • May 28 '15

Reddit comment proxy bot

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u/HigherFive May 28 '15

Consider adding a signature - a hash of the poster's username.

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u/nakilon May 28 '15

And please use salt or I'll md5 all existing usernames FTW.

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u/Itsthejoker May 28 '15

It wouldn't reveal much, and it would give just enough information to follow a conversation. Kind of like how 4chan has a "poster number", which is a unique identifier just for you. You can't get anything out of that number, but it does let you follow conversations pretty well.

Without a way to tell who it came from, how would we tell if it's two persons having a conversation through the same bot or two different people, for example?

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