Spam Bot Prevention
Discussions focus on strategies to deter spam bots and multiple fake accounts, such as IP/email rate limiting, phone verification, bans, and concerns about blocking legitimate users due to shared IPs like NAT.
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Probably because they'd potentially be blocking "legitimate" users
It's possible this is just an attempt to limit bot accounts
It could be used to deter users from making multiple accounts. It won't stop determined spammers though.
How is a blocking feature going to help when it's trivial to create a new account?
Careful, because of nat that's also a way to ban potential legit users.
They're back. At this point it might be worthwhile switching off new account registrations for a while?
Did you try rate limiting, shadow banning, ip banning etc?
I imagine there's ways to curtail that (like detecting non-human users).
It probably requires a phone number to limit the amount of bots on the platform.
It's an easy (obviously not perfect) way to have some limit on the number of accounts you create.