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Limit the number of news submission per user in 24 hours. I suggest max 5 news/24 hours. That way, we can guard HN from spammers.

• jcl 18y ago
  If this were actually a problem, they could circumvent this restriction by simply registering many accounts. A better solution -- as others have pointed out in the past -- would be a karma threshold for posting articles, but since it's not a problem yet, why bother?
  • hpr122i 18y ago
    If you think your website is "worth enough", you can make it a paysite and raise the barrier very much: see Metafilter (which has a 1 post/day hard limit, except for the owner)
• mixmax 18y ago
  That would be a bad idea since submissions follow a powerlaw , meaning that the majority come from a relatively low number of users that submit a lot. Check http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb for an example.
  • stcredzero 18y ago
    Are you saying that those posts wouldn't be made by someone else? I doubt it.
• deleted 18y ago
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