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1. jonty · 1790613966 · focus · HN ↗

   Back in ~2001 I ran a fairly popular blog commenting system - back then most blogs didn't have built-in comments, so I offered javascript embeds to add them to posts.

   One day performance started to go down rapidly, and within a few days my host got in touch about unusual CPU usage.

   I tracked it down to a series of random blogger.com blog posts with colossal comment threads measuring in the thousands. Each post only got comments for a single day, and all of the comments were in Japanese. The blog owners seemed very confused.

   Turns out Japanese schoolkids figured this trick out 25 years ago.

   1. charlieyu1 · 1790614931 · focus · HN ↗

      I have seen something like this before but it was mostly spammers/scammers. Don’t think they were kids at all.

      1. jonty · 1790615933 · focus · HN ↗

         These were definitely schoolkids - I translated some of the posts and the majority were gossiping about boys.

         1. asimovDev · 1790666204 · focus · HN ↗

            that's pretty cute. They must be in their late 30s by now, I wonder if they still remember doing this

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