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If the spammer spams thousands of people, it's a better use of everyone's time if an admin bans it once and for all.
by progval 6y ago
If the spammer spams thousands of people, it's a better use of everyone's time if an admin bans it once and for all.
- macieklaskus 6y agoThere are other solutions to this problem that don't require 3rd party intervention. For example, users could follow each other's block lists. If Bob spams thousands of accounts he'd quickly get on multiple block lists.
- loceng 6y agoIs Bob a verified, known identity, or does he simply create unlimited accounts and continue the spamming or abuse?
- drngdds 6y agoMastodon is federated, so you already get to choose who your content moderators will be when you pick a server. Blocklists are just an informal and spammy-by-default version of that.
- Hitton 6y agoSpamming thousands of people can be detected without knowing the content. And if you accept messages from other people than those you are following, you have to accept you will inevitably get some spam. It's like getting PGP encrypted email - you can't expect server spam filter to catch it based on its content and if you report it as a spam, server spam filter doesn't see the content.