On Reddit, many subreddits have configurable requirements like minimum account age and karma before users are allowed to post or comment.
If a user doesn’t meet the criteria, they receive an automatic message like:
Your post/comment has been removed as your account does not meet the karma and/or age requirements of this sub.
Your account must be older than _____ days and have more than ________ combined karma to post here.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically.
Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
Do you think Lemmy should consider adding similar options for community moderators — such as requiring a minimum amount of local or federated karma, and/or minimum account age — before a user can post or comment in a community?
Would this help reduce spam or low-effort posts, or would it go against the spirit of open discussion that Lemmy encourages?
I think account age would be more useful than karma. Karma is just a game-able system, but I could see a very short age requirement being useful eventually if a lot of spam starts to happen. I don’t think we’re there yet, though.
That one seems easy enough to game where you just make a bunch of accounts one day and then after the short time you spam. Requiring something like 10 comments to be upvoted before you make a post is a bit harder to do as you need to make all the accounts and interact with random communities, like sure it’s still bottable but at least it slows down spam bots
Maybe I’m wrong, but I would imagine tons of bot accounts being spun up just to wait for a bit would also be suspicious, right? But in that case they could be pruned before they did anything. I’m not a moderator, so don’t take anything I say as fact.