Lemmy

13605 readers

2 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to [email protected].

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

We need to do something about spam (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I think we need to add a couple more barriers to prevent spam. What about limiting posting to X amount of posts, or for new users or something?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Sounds good, would you like to open an issue for this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

backend or frontend side?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Backend