Let me know if there is a better place for enhancement requests.

To combat spam, is it possible to enact rules like this?

Can’t post in the first hour of making an account
Can’t create more than 2 accounts per … day? from the same IP
Can’t post more than once every 10 minutes…
  • Maharashtra
    3•1 year ago

    1st rule won’t stop spam.

    3rd rule will bring about too much frustration for non-spammer users.

    I’d add:

    • no community creation for accounts with less than x comments activity
    • only one new community creation per month (?)
    • automatic deletion of the communities with no activity over a month (voting/commenting/adding new posts, etc)
    • the possibility to choose “do not show threads with LESS than x upvotes in main”
    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶OP
      1•1 year ago

      Can’t create more than 2 accounts per … day? from the same IP

      Also this second rule will screw over VPN users like me, so it needs to be reworked as well.

      Rule 1 won’t stop spam, but will slow it down

      Rule 3 isn’t about commenting, just posting. Maybe only active for the first few days after creating an account?

      The idea is to make it a pain in the ass for spammers, but something users can deal with easily.