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As stated previously, there's no easy answer. Even when validating a telephone number, then everyone would use Twilio to create multiple "validated" accounts.
by rsoto 10y ago
As stated previously, there's no easy answer. Even when validating a telephone number, then everyone would use Twilio to create multiple "validated" accounts.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoAnd individuals with a valid need for multiple twitter accounts would find it difficult to validate them.
- brandon272 10y agoUsing Twilio to get around the verification may be obvious if you are a HN reader, but most people have no idea what Twilio is. Phone verification is certainly not a bulletproof solution, but I have to feel it would help a lot. And it doesn't have to stop at phone, either. You could multiple levels of verification, like Airbnb. Then as a user you could further filter how strict you want your tweet exposure to be.
- dictum 10y ago> Using Twilio to get around the verification may be obvious if you are a HN reader, but most people have no idea what Twilio is 4chan isn't a bunch of computer illiterate folks, either.
- brandon272 10y agoYep. Phone verification certainly isn't bulletproof. But reducing the deluge of abusive posts by troll accounts featuring Pepe memes as their profile image even 10 or 20% would be tremendous, in my view.
- fnord123 10y agoEvery hurdle helps. Like OpenBSD `pledge`. It doesn't stop everything and processes like bash can fork/exec to unwrap the pledge wrapper. But it helps get in the way of return oriented programming. Theo de Raadt had a good description of why every hurdle helps, but I can't find it. :(