@danluu There's a couple of things to consider here:

1. Bots (especially bad ones) do not behave like real users. They can be bursty, and don't have dwell time, so averaging 1M requests out to 11 QPS isn't a good way of evaluating their impact. It can be orders of magnitude higher.

2. I've seen reports that bots make up around 50% of all traffic and personally have seen bot traffic on ecommerce sites reach 90% (primarily price scraping attempts). More bots piling on is a problem.

@Migueldeicaza @vcsjones

Edit: I was confused with in app purchasing vs the payment method when I said the below.

The challenge with Apple pay (and Google pay) is the premium charged businesses beyond what other payment processors typically cost. Offering them can be a real technical challenge for various reasons, but even when it's not, if you're selling something that has actual costs behind it (as opposed to things like in-game tokens with zero COGS), it's easy to make a loss on each sale

@evan I'm a qualified no.

No: Mainly because this would take away any ability of non-admins to fact check/correct misinformation.

Qualified:A mechanism to flag a reply as abuse to be escalated to instance moderation would be helpful in some cases.

I consider my toots public. I do feel a responsibility to "tend to" the replies, but I don't think that includes pruning them.

It's a different story on my own domain (e.g. blog) though, because I'm responsible for all content there.