Spammer purgatory

posted by CDanger on ideasforphuks

I know we all love finding out where the best massages joints in the Indian subcontinent are but hear me out.

Sure spammers have to solve captchas until they get a high enough score, but what if they had to solve even more? For example, if your score is between between -1 and -5 you have to solve two to make a submission. If it is between -6 and -10 you have to solve three, and so on. It seems like a good way to keep the mechanical turks busy instead of wasting our time reading about dubious health benefits.

I know we all love finding out where the best massages joints in the Indian subcontinent are but hear me out. Sure spammers have to solve captchas until they get a high enough score, but what if they had to solve even more? For example, if your score is between between -1 and -5 you have to solve _two_ to make a submission. If it is between -6 and -10 you have to solve _three_, and so on. It seems like a good way to keep the mechanical turks busy instead of wasting our time reading about dubious health benefits.

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[–] jobes 2 points (+2|-0)

So...shadow banning?

[–] smallpond 1 points (+1|-0)

Yeah.. I know it smells like that, but it's clearly not. I was just describing my initial thoughts inspired by the title.

I think it the spammers paid any attention, they would see that their posts are not going where they sent them, and the posts would still be visible to the public for those who want to check out /s/spammerpurgatory. Clearly may not be worth the PR risk if people's knee-jerk reaction is "shadowbanning"!

Spammer purgatory

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