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  • Originally posted by crazycheese View Post
    But you do understand why you need fee?
    Another way is invitation. But thats about it, I have no other ideas...
    I understand that this would be a way to handle this, but I don't think it's a good way. But I also don't have other/better ideas.

    Originally posted by crazycheese View Post
    Perhaps,.. community verification with verification history is good way..
    [...]
    What do you think about it?
    All in all it comes to "need more moderators". There's already a feature to report posts, but someone has to handle these reports.

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    • Originally posted by droste View Post
      I understand that this would be a way to handle this, but I don't think it's a good way. But I also don't have other/better ideas.
      Me either...

      Originally posted by droste View Post
      All in all it comes to "need more moderators". There's already a feature to report posts, but someone has to handle these reports.
      It comes down to amount of spam.
      The hardest spam is human-made.
      Autoregistrations can be prevented with good captcha. Thats 99% of volume.
      %1 will have to rely on CAE to pass this barrier and this will cost spammer 0.01$ already for each bot.

      Now, if he is able to generate more profit than loss, we loose. Otherwise its not economical for him and we win.
      The money system will damage him by monetary side - it instantly charges him with 1$, total 1.01$.
      If he does not generate more than 1$ profit, he is at loss.
      Downside - yes, many people may not have the money for one-time registration, so it might be difficult.

      The trust system approaches from different side - by increasing the moderator attention hundredfold.
      It will require him to post something that makes sense. Otherwise his links will not work.
      The voting by already trusted members will resolve "need more moderators" problem. All established users are moderators.
      If some user misuses his right and downvotes the good post - he will be traceable. Same way, if group of already established users upvote a spammer, they will be traceable.
      This method will allow to dispatch whole wine grape of spammers instead fighting the singular cases.
      The downside is that implementing this method is complex investment.

      But the third option - have more moderators, makes no sense.
      Not many people are happy to generate useless posts and report him.
      Michael himself does not have so much time.
      And hiring an army of anti-spam moderators is also useless.

      Not discussing IP block here, because many tunnels are used by valid and spammer users alike.

      My two cents.

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        The usual crap...

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                Obviously a bot and necro champion.

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                    • browjenofer

                      There are way too much bots lately... :/

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