Posted again here despite its great age because "Moderate by hand versus by statistical inference" debates go back to at least the invention of NNTP[0] but flare up here and on lobste.rs/reddit every September/December/January.<p>0: See Bellovin, et al, in Steve Bellovin's USENIX award acceptance materials. <a href="https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame" rel="nofollow">https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame</a> and <a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/07_bellovin.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/07_bellov...</a> for those who are not familiar with USENIX and USENIX's Security conferences.