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Some following this thread might find Tarpits interesting if they don't already know about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)

Do you guys know of any other techniques that waste the malicious actor's time making it think everything is a-okay?

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Disciplined users - (http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/UsAndThem)

This usually fails because someone isn't strong enough to not respond. Or someone engages because it's a fun conversation for them. Examples of this on HN are some of the political discussions (eg Palestine) where people really should just flag and ignore but often people engage.

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