If you could change one thing about saidit's code, what would it be?

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

How about a quick profile or personal bio section for users in their accounts, where people can write stuff about themselves to let the community know.

Like a quick description box in the user profile section. Its a small feature and doesn't need to be on top of the list.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

A vanity page or blurb that shows up on your user profile is not a bad idea. I like user avatars too.

You can already do something kinda like that now, if you really want, but it's out of the way.

At the bottom of this wiki page: https://saidit.net/wiki/index you can see "User's Wiki Pages" where I have one: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/wiki/jasoncarswell that I haven't touched in about 6 months, for reasons.

Anyone on SaidIt could make their own if they wanted.

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Nice!

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What's the point of having a profile section if you're just going to delete your account every time you post something? :P

We do have /s/introductions but I'll think about it

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How about a time limit duration in between account creations from similar IP's in order to clamp down on suspicious behavior. Like 5 or 6 hours? or 24 hours? Whatever works best.

Accounts can still be deleted and IP's can be shifted via VPN, but back to back account creations should be discouraged at least a little, if you think it best.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

How about a time limit duration in between account creations from similar IP's in order to clamp down on suspicious behavior.

Not a bad idea. I think you might underestimate the percentage of people who would use VPNs while doing this.

Also we did add a captcha to the registration process a few months ago, that cut down on extraneous accounts quite a bit. I'll think about the per-IP registration limiting, maybe we can figure out an easy way to do it.