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It's simple to work around those time requirements. It's not uncommon to see accounts that are months old with 0 prior activity become super active as soon as
by dx87 8y ago
It's simple to work around those time requirements. It's not uncommon to see accounts that are months old with 0 prior activity become super active as soon as a thread criticizing China shows up.
- intended 8y agoObserve the saddening axiom - There is no such rule set that a dedicated troll or attacker would be unable to circumvent. Instead consider every rule as a evolutionary hint for attackers - eventually they reach a point that they can often pass for perfectly normal users. People are creating accounts now, filling them with karma and health comments in funny subreddits. Then a year later, they will bring it out and use them.
- Semaphor 8y agoFor everything that's wrong with cryptocurrencies and the /r/cryptocurrency subreddit, I really like their approach to tagging users. Main activity outside of this subreddit? You get tagged. A lot of activity in one specific coin subreddit? That's a tag. New account? Tag. Old account with little activity before? Tag. Longer time with no activity on CC? Tag. It feels weird at first, but it's actually a great way to recognize trolls.
- intended 8y agoI expect this to become explicit in many other forums based on how I know internal mod tools behave. This is problematic, because it is effectively the same way as saying "this person is a foreigner", and tribal identities overwhelm the initial intention of a information granting doohickey - see the fate of the upvote and downvote button today.
- Semaphor 8y ago> the same way as saying "this person is a foreigner" I disagree. It gives you context for what the person wrote. Everyone has a tag (even if some are positive).
- rellui 8y agoHa, for once all of the coin shilling resulted in something productive.
- pfranz 8y agoI can't remember where I heard this, but I remember someone talking about creating the process/paperwork for government programs. They were saying that adding multiple steps and verifications atrophies legitimate people way faster than scammers. Scammers just have more patience and resources to spend than people who have a legitimate need.
- duxup 8y agoThat and some random news related submissions over time. Then suddenly the account goes full force pushing a single POV across subreddits .... with similar other users in tow. You see it a lot more in location specific subs where they stand out as new people who as a group show up, vanish, and show up again.