"The really annoying folks are quite motivated and will use throwaway email services and other tactics to get around most basic requirements."
--Then don't allow throwaway domains to be used in the email field? Send verification links to emails before the account is usable? Yes there are ways around that but it would greatly deter some of these one-handed typers if you get what i mean. Mainly you need better moderators. Why not hire volunteers from this site whose accounts/IPs are in good standing?
"This new site has some other behind the scenes mechanisms to combat trolls that I think will prove their effectiveness over the coming weeks"
--You mean like stronger filters and commenting time limits? Don't get me wrong those are good ideas if you could limit them to just affect trolls. I don't really think "karma" is going to help you there, as long as you have these idiots playing around with proxies as you can see with the excessive negative votes directed towards specific users and excessive positive votes on the same 3 accounts with the same writing styles.
"I'd love to hear feedback"
--I'm guessing you wont read this though
"I assume people are mostly referring to the mobile layout"
--No were mostly referring to trolls, who give a fuck about the damn layout when you haven't solved the main problem yet
Why is Udi trying to be like Reddit
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"The really annoying folks are quite motivated and will use throwaway email services and other tactics to get around most basic requirements."
--Then don't allow throwaway domains to be used in the email field? Send verification links to emails before the account is usable? Yes there are ways around that but it would greatly deter some of these one-handed typers if you get what i mean. Mainly you need better moderators. Why not hire volunteers from this site whose accounts/IPs are in good standing?
"This new site has some other behind the scenes mechanisms to combat trolls that I think will prove their effectiveness over the coming weeks"
--You mean like stronger filters and commenting time limits? Don't get me wrong those are good ideas if you could limit them to just affect trolls. I don't really think "karma" is going to help you there, as long as you have these idiots playing around with proxies as you can see with the excessive negative votes directed towards specific users and excessive positive votes on the same 3 accounts with the same writing styles.
"I'd love to hear feedback"
--I'm guessing you wont read this though
"I assume people are mostly referring to the mobile layout"
--No were mostly referring to trolls, who give a fuck about the damn layout when you haven't solved the main problem yet