Hmm. Doing it only for links would def solve for spammers, which I think hits roughly 60% of the problem and is pretty good. Doesn’t solve for Eugins. Not sure how to weigh that.
(Still interested in a literal answer to my question “how bad is it to have your first post need to be approved?” which I don’t have much of an intuition for)
The other option is to hold comments from new accounts (or accounts with low posts) with certain keywords—for moderation.
I.e. “plumber”, a phone number etc.
I think if you specify “you have less than 10 comments and you posted a link” to let people know why their comment is being held for “a day” or so. It’s not a big deal.
If it was not explained then it would be more frustrating.
If you capture all comments while an account is suspected spam, that would be okay.
Hmm. Doing it only for links would def solve for spammers, which I think hits roughly 60% of the problem and is pretty good. Doesn’t solve for Eugins. Not sure how to weigh that.
(Still interested in a literal answer to my question “how bad is it to have your first post need to be approved?” which I don’t have much of an intuition for)
The other option is to hold comments from new accounts (or accounts with low posts) with certain keywords—for moderation.
I.e. “plumber”, a phone number etc.
I think if you specify “you have less than 10 comments and you posted a link” to let people know why their comment is being held for “a day” or so. It’s not a big deal.
If it was not explained then it would be more frustrating.
If you capture all comments while an account is suspected spam, that would be okay.