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But if the admins of the site cared more about integrity than pure profit, they'd put in a simple heuristic to filter this shit. So one way or another, they're culpable; and more so if this is a known phenomenon.


Oh, they're definitely culpable. But in some ways that jackass is the least of it. They know perfectly well that he'll tweak his pattern to evade any filter.

But they sure as hell could manually scan their emails. That's the really demoralizing part. They might lose a war of escalation but they don't even try in the most conspicuous places.




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