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What about just requiring a certain number of active days being signed up? Is there data that shows spam is ever posted by long running users?
by yesimahuman 16y ago
What about just requiring a certain number of active days being signed up? Is there data that shows spam is ever posted by long running users?
- nowarninglabel 16y agoPoor for stopping spam. It's pretty easy to write a little bot that just logs in to ycombinator on an active basis. Data would be good though.
- yesimahuman 16y agoSorry, I meant days since signup, not time since last login. I haven't see any data that suggests spammers are using old accounts, but I'm not sure.
- seancron 16y agoEven if spammers aren't using old accounts, if something like that was implemented, spammers would just add sleep( n * 86400 ) to their bots. Once those n days were up, there would be yet another wave of spam.
- matwood 16y agoI think this could work. If you make it something like 60 days that's not too harsh on new users, but will slow spammers down. If a spammer does wait 60 days and post an obvious spam link then gets banned they are stuck waiting again. The only problem here is a spammer that creates a ton of accounts and then uses them all at once after the 60 day threshold.