@magnora7 - Any update on crowdsourcing the spam battle?

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[–]ID10T 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Here's my thoughts on a fully automated strategy that should work to reduce spam:

  1. Don't allow accounts with low karma to create posts. Only commenting is allowed.

  2. Comments have to be upvoted to a threshold to allow posting. This forces users to engage in conversation in a non-trollish or bot-like fashion. Only accounts already allowed to post can upvote comments to prevent bots from upvoting themselves. AI can defeat this but will work for the current spam bots we see.

  3. Posters whose posts get tagged as spam above a certain threshold will be temporarily banned from posting. Perhaps a week or two. You are notified of this temporary ban so you can correct your behavior. Only other accounts allowed to post can flag other's posts as spam to prevent bot accounts flagging everything.

  4. Three strikes and you're out. If your account gets temporarily banned 3 times then it gets permanently shadow banned with no notification. Account still seems active but your posts are hidden from all subs. Shadow banning adds a further difficulty in a bot detecting when it has been banned.

This strategy is completely automated and does not rely on mods or power users, which as we've seen, those privileges always get abused. The thresholds are levers that can be adjusted to find a good balance. Like as the site traffic increases we would probably want to increase the spam flag ban threshold, since posts would naturally get flagged more with more users.

u/magnora7 what do you think?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not bad ideas, I will think them over thank you.

[–]BOOB-SMASHER 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not bad ideas, I will think them over thank you.

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