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My app is a social network. A social network means that the two most important pages (global stream and user stream) continuously mutate because there is always new user-generated content. Now, humans are very good at catching bugs there; if a the name of the user goes above the avatar picture next to it, humans will see it immediately. But how can a tool like Spotbot not to be confused by all the normal changes in u…
Right now we're not great at it. However, the way Spotbot works means that we will be decent at it soon. We do a hash of the structure, so we know exactly what kind of changes there are. For something like your page, the image sources, the text, the names, the votes, and other content change all the time. Soon we'll have a way to ignore those changes while still recognizing that other changes need to be vetted. So, f…