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Because then spammers would start to post comments instead, and those are harder to catch.
by pg 16y ago
Because then spammers would start to post comments instead, and those are harder to catch.
- noodle 16y agoare they? we kind of tend to smash down comments that are even slightly off topic or non-contributory. they might sneak in on the less popular submissions, but i kind of feel like it won't get by any more of a problem than it already is. if comments were more a effective way to spam, they'd already be a problem. alternatives: disallow links in comments until a certain karma/age. disallow both comments and submissions (ha) until you've voted on enough statistically different things. make it a game by creating a new metric that people can be measured on based on the number of spammers they've sought out and identified via flagging, and create a new top list for it.