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[suggestion] block new accounts from posting (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by SuperFola@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
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More and more new accounts are posting spam and ads to communities (eg !technology@programming.dev), would it be an idea to block new accounts from posting to any p.d community?

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[โ€“] Ategon@programming.dev 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That would massively hinder growth since actual users would get affected and then leave since they can't actually use the platform

Probably better to set up some link blacklists and then add things to it based on what spammers are linking to

edit: what you linked to is also not a community, did you mean !technology@lemmy.world or !tech@programming.dev?

[โ€“] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

There was a 6 day old user (ruckusnetwork) on our instance yesterday that posted an ad on !technology@lemmy.world yesterday. I banned and purged it ~2 hours after it was posted I think. We got about 6-8 reports in that time frame though.

Most spam accounts aren't from us though, nor would it solve anything due to federation. It would just drive users to sign up on other instances with looser restrictions.