Increased spam links on Saidit - karma requirement for subs?

submitted by Drewski from self.SaidIt

I've been noticing lately that there's more and more spam being posted on Saidit. I'm sure many of them are automated, which makes it hard to combat. While I don't want to become like reddit with all the karma-farming and whatnot, I was thinking one solution would be to allow sub admins to require a low amount of karma to submit links. This would at least prevent all the brand new accounts who only post their spam links, and could be a per-sub setting rather than all the default subs.

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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

s/news and s/politics are currently doing that, it seems you need 100 karma to post in those now.

The spam is obviously annoying, but the lack of karma gating was one of the primary reasons I ended up using this site. After getting banned on reddit for vaccine information, I wasn't going to farm karma to be able to post here, I would have just left. On a site with low membership, I am not sure about this tactic.

[–]marbles 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

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[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I get that which is why I was thinking it would be opt-in / only for individual subs. It wouldn't even have to be 100 karma, just requiring 10 karma to make a post would get rid of a lot of the new account spam.