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I don't think it is unreasonable to ask people to invest time in the community before they can request the community to invest time evaluating their product.
So a hacker who has been reading HN everyday while coding his product, but does not post often; is not allowed to post RMS anymore?
On top of that, record the IP address of the poster, and display the post but only to the spammer. Basically hiding it from everybody else. The spammer will think the post is still active. Everybody else will not see it.
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I have no first hand knowledge, but I would be surprised if a 2.5 year old account with 250 of karma (like you do) is not considered established enough for this purpose.
What about a 2.5 year old account with no karma? You'd be surprised at how many lurkers there are. I know quite a few (and was one myself up until a short while ago). EDIT: added emphasis
But the bar is much lower than that. For the purpose of just keeping spam accounts out, I think the combination of a karma threshold with average non-karma accruing activity over time (such as upvoting others, clicking through on articles, etc) could be an effective filter.
I don't think it is unreasonable to ask people to invest time in the community before they can request the community to invest time evaluating their product.
As a side effect, if you're legit, not a spammer but are new to HN (0 karma), then maybe one of the paths to getting an RMS is to be able to convince at least 1 non-new HN member with enough karma to stake their reputation and post an RMS on your behalf. Therefore the RMS is already vetted by someone real that's been around HN for a bit. Crowdsourcing RMS spam control sounds like it could work well. Like how investor…
I can definitely imagine lurkers creating accounts to show off their latest project, so auto-killing posts from newly created accounts doesn't seem like the best way. Perhaps make it policy that all RMS submissions be text submissions explaining the idea to give it a bit of authenticity, and every RMS submission with a link in the title be auto-killed. I don't imagine spammers would go through the effort of writing o…
If there was an established rule about who got to submit RMS posts, lurkers would know that and create accounts.
I have to say I'm not a huge fan of the slashdot moderation system in general, but it could work within this sort of limited scope. Allow people to opt-out altogether via a setting if necessary.
Tangent: I was amazed at the first spammy RMS submission I encountered. It had actually been upvoted. Spammers self-upvoting, or people wholesale upvoting any RMS they see without looking at it first?
I don't think it is unreasonable to ask people to invest time in the community before they can request the community to invest time evaluating their product.
Perhaps it's time for a more generic categorizing system of some kind? You could make it so that people can't post in certain categories without meeting a certain karma threshold.
I don't think it is unreasonable to ask people to invest time in the community before they can request the community to invest time evaluating their product.