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sudo OP wrote

If you ban their account, they'll just make a new one. If you ban their IP, they'll change it. This seems like a good case to use a shadowban. /u/emma, would you consider implementing shadowbans for times like this?

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sudo OP wrote

Do you mean not showing comments from new users until they're approved by a moderator or admin? I think that would put a lot more work on the mods/admins, especially as the userbase gets bigger.

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sudo OP wrote

I see a problem, though. If all the moderators for a particular forum are offline when a new user posts something, it could take hours for a mod to come online and approve their comment, and by then the discussion could be mostly over. That might turn away new users. I don't think we necessarily have to be honest to the type of people we'd want to shadowban.

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