And of course we need to fight botting, but that seems obvious.
Would be a big problem with your suggestion. Possibly only solved by gated entry to the forum. I.e. must email requesting to join the forum. Although I hate putting up barriers to entry to lw.
Other fora have developed ways of combatting bots; captchas, browser cookies, ips, etc.
Make it relatively easy for humans to enter but harder to make a mess, have algorithms that look for accounts whose voting patterns correlate but who never post anything, etc. Have a report spam button. Use blacklisting of emails and ips.
agreed.
want to point out that this:
Would be a big problem with your suggestion. Possibly only solved by gated entry to the forum. I.e. must email requesting to join the forum. Although I hate putting up barriers to entry to lw.
Why gated entry?
Other fora have developed ways of combatting bots; captchas, browser cookies, ips, etc.
Make it relatively easy for humans to enter but harder to make a mess, have algorithms that look for accounts whose voting patterns correlate but who never post anything, etc. Have a report spam button. Use blacklisting of emails and ips.
We have about one bot a month, I deal with that pretty easily. We have one troll every day, causing damage, causing special focus.
God that guy STILL ….