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I'm not sure it's applicable for you since it's a mobile app but I encountered the same issue with a single specific user, which would cause chaos everywhere.
by realusername 6y ago
I'm not sure it's applicable for you since it's a mobile app but I encountered the same issue with a single specific user, which would cause chaos everywhere.
The right answer for us has been to make the website utterly annoying for him, slowing down pages, disconnecting him randomly, removing the styling randomly, throwing a 500 page randomly, his experience was truly miserable.
- bananaface 6y agoGenius
- axegon_ 6y agoI did the exact same thing on a website I used to own ~2011-2012. I went one step further and occasionally redirected the user to sites people generally shouldn't visit through a url shortner. The user disappeared within a few hours.
- agustif 6y agoThere was a plugin to do this on Vbulletin forums. It was somethink like a shadow-ban but where you would give random timeouts/slow loads to the user
- ComputerGuru 6y ago"Tachy goes to Coventry" was the first implementation I know of. And I can't believe I remembered that off the top of my head.
- nathanyz 6y agoFraud and abuse prevention really boils down to something like this. You don't need to be perfect with blocking these folks, but you need to be better than your competitors so that the cost/benefit balance shifts to encourage the user to go elsewhere. Unfortunately trolls don't disappear, they just go somewhere else. Similar to the saying about the hungry lion. If a hungry lion approaches your group while hiking, you don't need to be faster than the lion, you just have to be faster than at least 1 of the other people in your group.
- jolmg 6y agoThat's pretty passive-agressive...