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Comment on Ask HN: How does Threadless prevent frauds?

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They don't require you to login before voting?

Many sites with voting or upvoting require login specifically to prevent frauds.

It would be easy to write a bot that signs up automatically through proxies. Even a security image wouldn't stop it— crack the easy ones, seamlessly outsource the hard ones to Mechanical Turk through their API.

So that's already happened here?

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