You don't need to be popular or flattered. If you are linked from anywhere and in search engines, they will find you. And they will reply to every node they can

You don't need to be popular or flattered. If you are linked from anywhere and in search engines, they will find you. And they will reply to every node they can. And they'll create new user accounts to submit more. I've gradually built my setup to filter based on words, URL fragments, block IPs, honeypots, shadowbanning, etc and they still get through. Take away all content moderation and I would be overrun to the point that my site was useless to my users. Those sort of methods are the easy bits too; dealing with greyarea trolls is the worst. Good luck. You'll find out.