The point is not to change the troll’s opinion; the point is to discredit them in front of whoever else may be reading the thread.

Also, the other action other than blocking them is reporting them and having a mod or admin remove them for everybody at once.

Both of those are better options than individually blocking.

Blocking doesn’t stop them from propagandizing others.

Then transcode it to whatever other format you need yourself. Point is, the thing being sold ought to be the highest quality possible.

But then, that would likely mean an expectation of a lower price tag and they wouldn’t want that.

In other words, they want to commit fraud with impunity. Because that’s what lying about the difference between a sale and a rental is: fraud on Sony’s part.

The scraping wouldn’t be a problem if Reddit simply provided an RSS feed or other data-efficient API. The “ramfucking” is caused by the attempt to block bots; it is entirely self-inflicted.

Remember, it’s all our content to begin with and Reddit does not have any right to try to lock it up for itself.

That doesn’t mean I like all the AI bullshit going on, BTW. But the problem is the generation of the slop, not the data accessibility.

The entire fucking point of the Web was to make information as easily-accessible as possible, structured and semantically tagged, and consumable by humans and further machine transformation alike. “Scraping” is facilitated by design!

Using Javascript to deliberately break that is evil and every programmer who participates it is a piece of shit. No exceptions.