Agree, from my experience this is largely a factor of requesting developers not used to interviewing to suddenly have an interview, often with little guidance either from their manager or hiring team. With nothing else, they have to rely on their own experience on how they were interviewed, with leet code, and so they continue the cycle.
No one is talking about encouraging such behavior. But if the FBI undertakes a serious investigation to track them down, when they get tracked down, they may well end up in a Federal prison for a long time--especially if they can't afford a few hundred thousand dollars for the best legal support. Maybe they deserve to have their life ruined for probably poorly considered juvenile behavior but I'm not sure. There are societal costs associated with pursuing and prosecuting every crime to the max.
Folks aren't asking for people to be locked up forever for this. A comment in the thread mentioned about first offenders getting no jail time, but needing to publicly apologize, do community service, etc. Repeat offenders should likely serve some jail time, with each offense bringing stronger punishment.
Doing nothing about this does encourage its behavior, especially since there's entire communities around doing it (kiwi farms being one of the worst).
Can't imagine why this, a public link to precisely what the parent comment mentions, is [dead] - unless it's the complete lack of karma on the account.
Several month old account with no comments and their first comment includes a link. It seems to be a spam filter thing as I've seen similar things happen to other old-but-rarely-used accounts with few comments.
