All, Just watched a troll post a video of a white women's grisly murder by black Islamic terrorist's in Africa. They were attempting to incite a race war. This is the culmination of 6 months of decline in content quality on TD. The "new account" feature is bringing in people hell bent on getting us shut down entirely. We need to close down enrollment and reopen as an invite-only community a month from now. I know we want to grow, but we need to grow safely. They will stop at nothing to get us shut down. New user content is the biggest vulnerability. They might start posting CP if they were willing to post this. Wake up.
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Need to just slow down new people from posting.
New accounts should not be able to reply to topics until after 24 hours
New accounts shouldn't be able to create new topics until they have at least 50 post replies (with >=2 score points) and have been a member for 2 weeks.
All posters should have an "average posts per day" statistic next to their names so we know who's active vs. just some rando who pops up without a handshake on an account created months ago.
People who do not average at least 2 posts per day should not be able to create new topics.
As a relatively inactive 'handshake' account (I mostly lurk), I can see some merit in this, though I would advocate for simply monitoring whether they have net positive votes on replies and posts. The people who create accounts to simply troll can be easily filtered out using this metric alone.
Perhaps the solution would be to put a good/bad/neutral karma symbol besides the handshake symbol to distinguish the nice from naughty? (Could be a good idea for all accounts, actually). If we view every handshake account with extreme suspicion, we won't grow as a site. We need to distinguish honest new-pedes from the trolls.