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…
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”
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.
Automod tools to block “emergenresearch” would probably go a long way, that spam is relentless. And I suspect that moderation is close to non-existent/severely underresourced, so automod tools are probably required to make up the difference.
