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Would it really help with spam though? The rewards for a spammer to make it to the first, second, or even third page are probably worth the risk of negative kar
by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
Would it really help with spam though? The rewards for a spammer to make it to the first, second, or even third page are probably worth the risk of negative karma.
As for duplicate articles, I'm not even really sure what the problem is. Is it duplicate articles (same url, slightly different) that clog up the system? Or is it the same subject being covered from many different sources? There have also been a few times within the last month where two stories about the same topic will be right next to each other on the front page--amazon/apple/other big industry announcements like to do this.
- alanh 16y agoRight, I have to imagine if I were a spammer, I would churn through new accounts fairly regularly anyway. (Not to imply new accounts are always unwanted of spammy — we were all new once…)
- nightpool 16y agoI think most of the problem has to do with the fact that you are spreading upvotes and comments over two pages, rather then having them on one.
- silentbicycle 16y agoI expected that new accounts wouldn't be able to submit anything until they have a couple points of karma (from upvoted comments). The problem is that the main page of the new feed frequently has a max age under an hour (44 min., currently) - if something doesn't get any upvotes by then, it falls off the page and becomes drastically less likely to get any further upvotes. It also can't be resubmitted for several months. Slowing this down would almost certainly be good - quite a few interesting posts get submitted at the wrong time and never get noticed.