Magnora, what's going on with the front page?

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[–]magnora7[A] 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It's all been removed.

We were being attacked like this last night, someone using a vpn and making a ton of names and posting the worst garbage.

I dealt with it for about 30 mins then went to bed because it seemed like it was over, but I guess he started up a few hours ago again. Anyway, I just removed it all and banned those users again. We will probably have to start doing IP bans, but the user is rotating their IP address constantly, so we may end up having to ban a lot of VPN ip addresses because of this one person.

Just have some patience. I'm not omniscient. The stuff gets dealt with, but I cannot deal with everything negative the instant it is posted. It's just not possible.

[–]zyxzevn 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If it becomes a problem, you can also put the new users (or suspect users) in a shadow-mode. They won't see the difference.

And after someone trusted has checked their behaviour, you can activate them.

If necessary, you can even add a few variations. I think that you want to spot the good/trusted users, and flag users that behave like bots, click_farm, hacked_account or troll.

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's true. Voat usually just disables new user account creation when they're under attack, which isn't a terrible idea.

It would be nice if user report flags placed extra limitations (less posts per hour allowed) on brand-new users.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's probably worth mentioning to recently joining community members that this type of thing has happened here before.

This is probably round 3 or 4, so this isn't his first round of community agitation, with many calling for action.

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

this is an excellent idea. Can probably train up an AI to spot the bad ones and ban them too, reducing the amount of accounts left to authorize

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

I guess it doesn't work since pedo's favorite tor.