Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoBefore the API change I was looking into making an extension for RES that would automatically block any user account above a configurable ratio of posts to comments. It was BANANAS how much content was from bots on the front page even on smaller subs.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That would have been a lot like how I remember message boards being back in the day, (late 90’s early 2000’s) and honestly I don’t think I like it. People like me (with both low number of comments and posts) wouldn’t be able to reach that bar to entry. I get the bots wouldn’t either, but that still eliminates human users as well and I don’t know if that’s a good thing.
aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Huh? What message boards in the 90s counted karma?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
They counted comments and the number of upvotes (or what have you) in an attempt to stop trolls and bad actors. If you didn’t have enough comments you couldn’t post anything to the message boards and therefore could really engage with the message oars above a certain level. I remember that some also used to limit the number of comments any one user account could make per day, especially new users.
aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
Where was this? I was on at least 10 different message boards, most of them extremely large, including something awful, and nothing had what you’re talking about.