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tl;dr, but not surprising at all. Forums (including HN) haven't evolved to deal with motivated saboteurs yet. Basically, any content with correct grammar and sp
by l0b0 4y ago
tl;dr, but not surprising at all. Forums (including HN) haven't evolved to deal with motivated saboteurs yet. Basically, any content with correct grammar and spelling have already cleared the most useful moderation barrier, which historically kept out the inarticulate lunatics and primitive bots. Probably the only way to deal with this is networks based on invitation (like lobste.rs) and a twitchy ban hammer.
- EGreg 4y agoDoubt that would work to keep bots out. Anyone can invite bots or hook a bot up to their own accounts. Then what?
- l0b0 4y agoThen anyone who is higher up the invite ladder can ban them, and everyone they invited. Shouldn't take long to weed out the few miscreants.
- welshwelsh 4y agoMaking a popular public space invitation only or super ban happy means the attackers won. In that case they have successfully made the space inaccessible to the public or made it so that normal users are now getting banned.
- l0b0 4y agoNah, the public can still read everything on there. Just not participate, unless someone already in the community deems them trustworthy.