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What's up with all the ads here? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So, uhm, what the hell is going on with all these ad posts I’m seeing in this community?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bots and lack of mods on different timezones most likely.

Would probably make sense to have an account age requirement and comment requirement before posting somehow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

account age requirement and comment requirement before posting

This can also be very unwelcoming to new users though. Reddit often feels like a closed place because so many subs have karma requirements. I'd prefer we didn't go there.

We should rather stop allowing sign ups without an application. The captchas are not good enough.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This can also be very unwelcoming to new users though.

For like the first week of posting...

Then it's never an issue again.

But it's hard for trolls and bots to build that up for every account.

Theres been more than a few that just keep making new accounts on small instances the second they're banned

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is an issue if you change instance, which you may do more often than creating new accounts on traditional social media. And again, I just find it kind of unwelcoming.

Maybe automatically creating a report to just check the post for spam when a new user posts would be nice? Then a mod can check it out but it's not removed automatically or blocked.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

It is an issue if you change instance

Again, only for like a week...

There's no valid reason to keep constantly churning accounts.