I think we need to add a couple more barriers to prevent spam. What about limiting posting to X amount of posts, or for new users or something?

  • poVoq
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    113 years ago

    In my experience requiring moderator approval for the first post a user makes is the most efficient spam fighting method as spammers usually don’t try very hard to hide the fact that they are spammers.

    • ghost_laptopOP
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      83 years ago

      I think it sounds like a good solution, although that brings another issue to the table, that being the enormous amount of communities with dead administrators on Lemmy, which will make everything harder.

    • @nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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      So all their posts/comments are hidden from everyone, until an admin manually approves? It sounds like a good option, but would require a bunch of work to implement. Mostly frontend changes for the review, on the backend it mainly needs a new user column bool reviewed_by_admin.

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        Yeah like that. It is a common way to fight spam on traditional forums and is pretty much the only thing that consistently worked for me in 15+ years moderating forums with huge spam problems.

    • @N0b3d@lemmy.ml
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      33 years ago

      It’s a horrible system for new users. It would kill growth in an instant.

      Spam is only spam when there’s a number of substantively similar posts. A first post doesn’t meet that test, by definition.