USENET had moderated newsgroups, too - and there's web forums that are wholly unmoderated (or not meaningfully moderated). Doesn't matter, though. This isn't a

USENET 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.