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Accounts have to start posting somewhen. Moderators don't have the capacity (and fairly, it is impossible) to check if they are bots or humans. There are no g
by bmacho 7mo ago
Accounts have to start posting somewhen.
Moderators don't have the capacity (and fairly, it is impossible) to check if they are bots or humans.
There are no good solutions, there are hundreds of thousands of intelligences out there, trained millions of hours on how to scam humans, capable of spitting out text tirelessly and shamelessly, and there will be only more of them, tens, hundreds, thousands times more.
- Kwpolska 7mo agoComments should be allowed from day one, but submissions should require some experience and karma.
- Jtsummers 7mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://news.ycombinator.com/newest - Scroll through there and there are a lot of [dead] submissions by green accounts. They aren't outright banned from submitting, but it often triggers auto moderation. It's like posting a link in one of your first few comments as a green user, that often results in shadow banning automatically.