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> It’s not a perfect solution — the troll could abandon the banned account and open a new one without supplying a number Yeah, that's a slight flaw in this pla

> It’s not a perfect solution — the troll could abandon the banned account and open a new one without supplying a number Yeah, that's a slight flaw in this plan, isn't it?... I guess the only real benefit of this new system is that admins can be more trigger-happy on (temporarily) banning accounts.

acveilleux 12y ago
Banning? DOesn't seem like banning. It's more likely to allow accounts that have lots of flagging to be automatically shunted to an automatable verification step. Accounts that pass verification can then be worth human attention. Accounts that do not attempt verification end up muted. Seems like a reasonable way to scale human intervention in the face of cheap, broad usage of throwaways by trolls.
- thebouv 12y ago
  Flagging-to-verification-to-muting -- funny enough, probably mostly going to be used by trolls to flag the people they're trolling.