this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2021
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Sounds good, would you like to open an issue for this?
backend or frontend side?
Backend
More than reviewed by admin, would be reviewed by moderators of the specific community.
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.