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Ask HN: If you were making a social app, how would you minimize trolls?
How would you minimize the # of trolls and spammer account signups? Just curious.
- devenblake 6y agoUse the robots9000 approach. No duplicate posts allowed. It works well for /r9k/ and for some various other sites I've visited.
- zzo38computer 6y agoDisallowing duplicate posts is a good idea, and for other reasons too.
- new_guy 6y agoThe best way I found is recaptcha on signup to stop around 90% of spam bots, and shadow ban trolls so they can still see their activity but no-one else can.
- zzo38computer 6y agoI hate reCAPTCHA, and I also dislike being unable to see messages that someone posted if they have been posted intended to be public.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoYou are free to implement your own instead of using Google's implementation. Unless your disagreement is with the concept.
- zzo38computer 6y agoMy disagreement is not with CAPTCHA in general; some simply ask you a question in text and expect you to fill in the answer, and that is reasonable, I think.
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- mrkn1 6y agoHave you considered fail2ban?