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Usenet was useful for this kind of attack, the internet allows you to create moderated forums that can withstand it.
by amadeuspagel 3y ago
Usenet was useful for this kind of attack, the internet allows you to create moderated forums that can withstand it.
- photonthug 3y agoExcept it's increasingly obvious that moderation doesn't scale, and the attack it wishes to prevent does
- kmeisthax 3y agoUSENET had moderated newsgroups, too - and there's web forums that are wholly unmoderated (or not meaningfully moderated). Doesn't matter, though. This isn't an attack that can be solved with moderators, because the attack is not the content of the message. It's who's sending it. Our Russian dictators assume thousands if not millions of identities in order to spam the world - you as a moderator only see a randomly-generated humanoid and an unusually common sentiment. Yes, you could just ban the sentiment, but now you're accidentally censoring legitimate speech by unrelated parties.