points by Aurornis 3 days ago | 0 comments
Nobody thinks that everyone using automated services to beat parking tickets or whatever was actually being wrongfully accused. Most just want to find a loophole to get out of it.
You're missing the important part where people with legitimate complaints are being crowded out by these frivolous attempts to avoid fines. Everyone loses when filing automated frivolous complaints becomes the default response to getting a parking ticket, for example.
> Same with the job search. if so many companies didn't make it a pain to input your information, maybe they could get more sympathy.
I think you’re confused about the problem. I wasn’t asking you to be sympathetic to employers. I’m saying that the application and interview system abusers are ruining it for real, honest job applicants.
Again, the spammers are taking away from legitimate applicants
[–] jimmydorry 3 days ago
[–] nhinck2 3 days ago
[–] Aurornis 2 days ago
If you create a service that might get someone out of a fine via a loophole or by creating friction, many will take that opportunity to take the chance.
It would be very unreasonable to think that most of the people trying these services were simply wronged by the government and we must support them all.
> Have you never received a fine for parking legally?
I have not, but I have had to deal with another government problem that was a mistake. I would not want to have that process backlogged behind 1000 other automated requests from people trying their luck at getting out of fines they really deserved because they had ChatGPT start filing things for them because it didn’t cost them anything.
> If the system was perfect, they wouldn't offer a way to contest them.
At this point I think you’re just deliberately ignoring the problem we’re discussing.
We know a system exists for a reason. We are not talking about people using the system for legitimate reasons.
We are talking about the problem that occurs when the cost of filing a request goes to zero so everyone starts doing it automatically in response to any fine.