Comment by xpe
3 years ago
Spammers and fraudster are a problem, sure, but the biggest? By what measure?
If we're trying to predict which threats are "big" enough to lead to system failure, the analysis is quite different. In natural systems, parasites tend to fill niches and can persist for lengthy periods, often as long as the host. Or longer.
Think of it as a historically situated evolutionary battle. Thinking over many scenarios, there are many failure modes. One way to tease apart the likely causal threats involves thinking through a lot of scenarios.
Under what conditions you think spam/fraud would (more or less) 'destroy' the open web? And what does that destruction look like to you?
>By what measure?
Time and money lost to them. The idea of creating a web closed from those people starts to look very attractive when you have to spend time multiple times a day cleaning out spam from your site.
>Under what conditions you think spam/fraud would (more or less) 'destroy' the open web?
It's already happening.
>And what does that destruction look like to you?
The destruction looks like more websites able to offer free or cheap services. A great reduction in spam comments. More effective ads. For good actors nothing really changes.