Perhaps this is already implemented on one of the Lemmy variants?
New features :
- auto closing/suspending stale communities
- stale could be defined as unanswered mod reports, no mod activity (no post, comment, login in x time period), no posts
- staggered new account permissions:
- wait 24h before commenting, wait 7 days before posting.
- allow community users to flag posts or comments as NSFW.
- Voting changes from up, down to up, down or NSFW.)
Curious what people think about this?
I’ll give some insight from NodeBB.
Adding in delays (x days until first post, y hours until upvote, etc.) do nothing to curb spam.
If your spam is manual, they will discover the waiting period, update their rulebook, and go to town when the waiting period is over.
If the spam is automated, it will work until the spammer admin discovers the waiting period, updates the script, and has the bots resume going to town when the waiting period is over.
At the same time it severly hampers usability at its most crucial (the first post).
The only thing that works to curb spam is a post queue with manual review… or locking the ability to post links behind reputation.