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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I doubt you can ever be fully stop bots. The only way I can see to significantly reduce bot is to make everyone pay a one off ยฃ1 to sign up and force the use of a debit/credit card, no paypal, etc. The obvious issues are, it removes annonimity, and blocks entry.

Possible mitigations;

  • Maybe you don't need to keep the card information after the user pays for sign up?
  • Signed up users can be given a few "invite codes" a year enable those who don't have the means to pay the ยฃ1 to get an account.
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You can just get rid of the whole payment thing and go with invite codes alone. Of course you'll be limiting registration speed massively (which may not be good depending on if you're in the middle of a Reddit exodus or not), but it is mostly bot-proof. Tildes seems to have pulled it off.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Invites work in the short term but once the bots get a foothold it quickly falls apart. Back when Gmail was invite only it took only a few months for websites to pop up that automated invite distribution.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

monero.town uses anonymous monero payments to bypass manual aproval