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[–]Alienhunter 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

In the past I've trolled reddit subreddits by spamming shit and getting them to place restrictions on new accounts. It is a counter productive approach. You give the troll what they want which is to cause chaos and make it harder for people to have a discussion. And the troll can very easily just get around it by pretending to be legit long enough to get in the door than shitting everywhere.

The best way to handle the troll is just to ignore them. Block them if you wish but it doesn't matter since they make new accounts. Just ignore. Troll will eventually get bored. Not much else you can do to stop it unless you want to break the message board format or move to something a lot less anonymous

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

With this volume of spam it's driving users away, and the countermeasure of increased Cloudflare control has quite the same effect. Closed registrations keep the experience pleasant for real users. There could be an invite system for potentially new users.

People can maintain their anonymity if Tor connections are allowed. I registered this account from behind Tor. But people have to register an account so it isn't completely anonymous anyway.

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

I don't know. Way I see it is any "solutions" are gonna be some degree of shit and are in a way feeding the troll since it's got a reaction.

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

Yep.

Adding more mods and admins can also help.