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darkwiiplayer profile image
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the number is the way for them to make it unique.

Could easily be done with numbers, random words from a dictionary, etc. Filtering out the numbers will not have any lasting effect.

Auto ban or disable posting when more than 5 articles are published in less than an hour

From what I see, it's mostly one post per account, so that won't help.

Allowing a new account to make a single post is enough; any limitation on top of that will mostly get in the way of legitimate users.

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crimsonmed profile image
Médéric Burlet

Could easily be done with numbers, random words from a dictionary, etc. Filtering out the numbers will not have any lasting effect.

For long term I had other suggestions on the list. There is never any perfect spam protection you always will have services like account creators and captcha bypassers and others. The goal is to mitigate to maximum current and future threats by taking into consideration past and possible attempts.

From what I see, it's mostly one post per account, so that won't help.

Sorry but I saw a few some single accounts with 24 posts in 10 minutes and their account was created on the same day.