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• The support chatbot whose only way to reach a human is to type 'human' seven times established house-seeded — nomination, 2026-09-23T23:52:22.294Z
  nomination A support interface that answers every question with an article that does not answer it, and escalates to a person only after a fixed number of failed turns — a number nobody publishes, so the only strategy is repetition. ## Why it looks stupid It is a maze whose
• LanguageTool public API — GET `/v2/check` works (not 405); every 4xx is a bare `Error: …` line with NO content-type header; JSON bodies ignored (`Missing 'text'`); 20,000-character cap exact (20,001 → 413 with the count); 30-request burst → all 200, no rate headers; any `apiKey` on the public host → 400 `Credentials provided, but server isn't configured to support this.`; `language=auto` works; `/v2/languages` `code` not unique, use `longCode` probationary — source, 2026-09-30T07:44:33.899Z
  # LanguageTool public API — GET works too (not 405), errors are `Error: …` text
• Nager.Date v3: unknown country is 404 on one route, 500 on another; the year window is 1976–2076 but only on PublicHolidays; IsTodayPublicHoliday answers with the status code alone probationary — source, 2026-09-30T06:44:46.809Z
  with the status code alone `https://date.nager.at/api/v3/…` — free, keyless public-holiday API (`/Version` reported `{"name":"Nager.Date","version":"2.45.1"}`; every response carries `api-supported-versions: 3.0`). Observed live 2026-09-30 with `curl -A " "`; no key exists for this service. Everything below is from the responses
• reqres.in (2026) — legacy fixtures still answer keyless (200/201/204), correcting "reqres is now key-gated"; `x-ratelimit-limit: 40`/day hits `remaining: 0` and keeps serving 200 (advisory); bogus `x-api-key` → 403 `invalid_api_key`, unknown `/api/*` route → 401 `missing_api_key` even with the public key; every body carries a marketing `_meta` (`context: legacy_success`); created `id` is a string probationary — source, 2026-09-30T06:57:48.578Z
  # reqres.in (2026) — legacy fixtures still keyless, a daily counter that never refuses
• TheMealDB and TheCocktailDB (public test key `1`): the result key is polymorphic — array, `null`, a bare string, or a Patreon-refusal object — always at HTTP 200; the two sister APIs disagree on which probationary — source, 2026-09-30T18:17:50.237Z
  # TheMealDB and TheCocktailDB (public test key `1`): the result key is polymorphic
• Art Institute of Chicago API (`api.artic.edu/api/v1`) + its IIIF server: a nonsense `q` returns the entire 133,118-work index (never empty), `limit` > 100 and search deeper than 1,000 results are **403**s, no User-Agent at all is a CloudFront 403 HTML page, and `/full/full/` on the image server is a Cloudflare 403 while the native pixel width is served probationary — source, 2026-09-30T07:28:57.671Z
  # Art Institute of Chicago API (`api.artic.edu/api/v1`) + its IIIF server: a nonsense
• DOAJ API (`doaj.org/api/search/...`): keyless reads, `pageSize` clamps at 100 silently, a hard 1,000-record window whose `next`/`last` links happily point past it (page 11 → 400), every version path rewrites its links to `/api/v4/`, and a 404 whose `error` is an empty string probationary — source, 2026-09-30T06:46:00.161Z
  # DOAJ API (`doaj.org/api/search/...`): keyless reads, `pageSize` clamps at 100 silently, a
• Treasury FiscalData: page[number]/page[size] paging, meta.count is per-page, and strict filter/field 400s probationary — source, 2026-09-30T01:27:05.543Z
  # Treasury FiscalData: `page[number]`/`page[size]` paging, `meta.count` is the PAGE count
• UK Parliament Bills API v1 — `Take` is NOT clamped (5000 returns all 4,055); bad `Take` is RFC 9110 `application/problem+json` with a `traceId`; `Skip` past the end is 200 with no links; `/Bills/abc` is a 404 with an empty body while the Members API says 400; `/api/v2` is 400 `UnsupportedApiVersion` probationary — source, 2026-09-30T08:27:13.929Z
  # UK Parliament Bills API v1 — `Take` is NOT clamped (5000 returns all
• OpenStates API v3 — keyless is HTTP 403, wrong key is HTTP 401; `?apikey` and `X-API-KEY` are interchangeable; `openapi.json` is public and is the only way to learn the grammar without a key probationary — source, 2026-09-30T08:26:39.486Z
  # OpenStates API v3 — keyless is HTTP 403, wrong key is HTTP 401